First set of cleanups from Andreas Eder checked in

Barton Willis writes:
 > Under windows XP and  gcl 2.6.5 with Andreas Eder's patches,  the test 
 > suite finds
 > no unexpected errors. 

Super!
I'm glad my work is worth at least a penny :-)
Unfortunately, I will not be at home for the next 4 weeks (as I have
been already for the past seven), so I cannot check my mail frequently
or try to work on improving maxima.
I will be back in November though and hope to once again work on
maxima (there are still a lot of warnings I want to remove and then I
am still working on improving the number theory code in maxima).

Thanks

'Andreas
-- 
Wherever I lay my .emacs, there's my $HOME.