Working on the manual.

FIX

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 url.absolute was not working when base_url was already parsed
-http.request was redirecting even when the location header is empty
+http.request was redirecting even when the location header was empty
 tcp{client}:shutdown() was checking for group instead of class.
 tcp{client}:send() now returns i+sent-1...
-get rid of a = socket.try() in the manual, except for protected cases.
-    replace it with assert.
-get rid of "base." kludge
+get rid of a = socket.try() in the manual, except for protected cases. replace it with assert.
+get rid of "base." kludge in package.loaded
 check all "require("http")" etc in the manual.
 make sure sock_gethostname.*  only return success if the hp is not null!
-change 'l' prefix in C libraries to 'c'
+change 'l' prefix in C libraries to 'c' to avoid clash with LHF libraries
     don't forget the declarations in luasocket.h and mime.h!!!
 setpeername was using udp{unconnected}
-fixed a bug in http.lua that caused some requests to fail
+fixed a bug in http.lua that caused some requests to fail (Florian Berger)
+fixed a bug in select.c that prevented sockets with descriptor 0 from working (Renato Maia)
+fixed a "bug" that caused dns.toip to crash under uLinux
+fixed a "bug" that caused a crash in gethostbyname under VMS
+DEBUG and VERSION became _DEBUG and _VERSION