New Features as of Version 0.83 Using OpenContainers 1.5.3 -Fixed a bug in Val for prettyPrint under X-Midas: it uses the operator<< of X-Midas for complex numbers rather than oc version (ValReader can no longer read those in). -Added a new method to Tab: appendStr. Rather than appending a new entry whose key is an integer, it appends the same key as a string. (Thus Tab t; t.appendStr(777) ends up { "0":777 } vs. Tab t; t.append(888); end up { 0: 888 } ) Updating X-Midas ptools option tree -Updated to opencontainers 1.5.3 -Added a python directory to the ptools X-Midas option tree so that when you add PTOOLS to your X-Midas option trees, you automatically pick up midastalker(midasserver) when you "import midastalker" from Python. This just makes it easier to use the MidasTalker with XMPY. -The X-Midas PipeTab routines (for type 4000) files have been slightly rewritten to be more X-Midas like. If you just use the functions as given with no other X-Midas type 4000isms, there shouldn't be any changes to your code. -In the X-Midas option tree, there were multiple copies of ocserialize.cc, ocval.cc and pipetab.cc in lib/ptools and lib/oc. Removed the ones out of lib/ptools. -Added explain pages for all four primitives: xmclient, xmserver permclient and permserver -Changed the xmclient and permclient code to reflect the interface change (announced back in 0.80) and made to the "Numeric" argument.