Version 232.txr-232

* RELNOTES: Updated.

* configure, txr.1: Bumped version and date.

* share/txr/stdlib/ver.tl: Likewise.

* txr.vim, tl.vim: Regenerated.

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+                                    TXR 232
+                                   2020-02-09
+
+
+  Features:
+
+  - POSIX:
+    - chmod function now supports symbolic modes of the chmod utility
+    - chmod and stat nown work on streams and file descriptors
+      - fstat now just alias for the same function as stat
+    - added utimes, lutimes functions for updating timestamps
+    - added mkfifo function
+    - added chown and lchown
+    - added rmdir
+    - ftw now throws exception on failure
+    - new copy-file and copy-files funtions
+    - new recursive processing functions:
+      - recursive copy: copy-path-rec
+        - can copy symlinks, preserve timestamps, perms, ownership
+      - recursive chmod: chmod-rec
+      - recursive chown: chown-rec
+      - recursive delete: remove-path-rec
+
+  - Packages:
+    - new merge-delete-package function
+
+  - Build:
+    - config.log file no longer generated by configure
+    - New reconfigure script is generated
+      - run reconfigure to conveniently repeat the same configuration
+
+  - Exceptions:
+    - New retry and skip exceptions under restart hierarchy
+
+  - Buffers:
+    - file-get-buf now has optional byte count and offset params
+    - file-put-buf takes optional offset argument
+    - new function file-place-buf: like file-put-buf but doesn't
+      truncate if file exists
+
+  - I/O:
+    - new mode supported by open-file: "m": open for modification:
+      - like "w" but doesn't truncate when file exits
+      - E.g. "m+b": open for writing and reading, binary, don't truncate
+
+  - Misc: - ensure-dir returns nil when directory already exists, t otherwise
+    - with-resources macro takes multiple cleanup forms for each resource
+    - New coded-length function for calculating UTF-8 length of string
+    - open-files and open-files* now take an optional mode argument
+    - numerous documentation fixes
+
+  Bugs:
+
+  - Fixed regression: @(skip :greedy) broken.
+  - FFI: broken handling of undimensioned character arrays
+    (no UTF-8 conversion)
+  - mknod: third argument now optional, as documented
+  - ensure-dir: fail if object exists and is not a directory
+  - compiler: bug in compilation of catch form, causing
+    "frame level mismatch" exception
+  - packages: fixed lack of documented defaulting of package argument in
+    several functions
+  - copy-file: now detects source object is a directory, and avoids
+    creating the target object in that case before failing
+  - the internal c_str function now rejects symbolic arguments
+    - some functions in TXR that were documented as requiring strings
+      had the undocumented feature of accepting symbols, due to this
+      behavior of c_str
+  - listener now catches exceptions during gathering of completions,
+    preventing TXR from bailing in that case
+  - fixed incorrect return value of fill-buf and fill-buf-adjust
+  - buf-set-length was not consistently setting newly allocated bytes
+    to the requested initial value
+
+
+
                                     TXR 231
                                    2020-01-12