Rewrite system file reader code, to clean up and improve.

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+Sun Dec 10 14:21:29 2006  Ben Pfaff  <blp@gnu.org>
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+       * sfm-private.h: Move contents into sys-file-writer.c, which is
+       the only remaining user.  Removed Borland C++-specific directives.
+       
+       * sys-file-reader.c: Clean up and rewrite entire file.  The
+       rewritten version is simpler and better abstracted, and should be
+       easier to maintain and extend.  It avoids using structures to read
+       file data, which is prone to padding variations among compilers.
+       It should also handle non-IEEE 754 system files, although I
+       haven't been able to find any.  It has been tested against many
+       .sav files obtained from the Web and found to produce the same
+       results as the earlier version of the code, or in some cases
+       improved results.  It is more tolerant of format variations found
+       in the wild.
+
+       * sys-file-reader.h (struct sfm_read_info): Removed `big_endian'
+       member, putting an enum integer_format in its place.  New member
+       `float_format'.  Changed `compressed' member to type bool.
+
+Sun Dec 10 13:48:53 2006  Ben Pfaff  <blp@gnu.org>
+
+       * dictionary.c (dict_delete_consecutive_vars): New function.
+
 Sat Dec  9 20:08:25 2006  Ben Pfaff  <blp@gnu.org>
 
        * file-name.c (fn_search_path): Remove prefix arg that was unused