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@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename tasks.info
 @settitle GNU Task List
-@c UPDATE THIS DATE WHENEVER YOU MAKE CHANGES!
-@set lastupdate 14 August 1996
+@include tasks.version
 @c %**end of header
 
 @setchapternewpage off
@@ -130,6 +129,7 @@ Various other libraries.
 @item
 An emulation of SCCS that works using RCS.
 
+@item
 Less urgent: @code{diction}, @code{explain}, and @code{style}, or
 something to do the same kind of job.  Compatibility with Unix is not
 especially important for these programs.
@@ -172,11 +172,16 @@ Enhance GCC.  See files @file{PROJECTS} and @file{PROBLEMS} in the GCC
 distribution.
 
 @item
-GNU @code{sed} probably needs to be rewritten completely just to make it
-cleaner.
+Rewrite GNU @code{sed} completely, to make it cleaner.
+
+@item
+Rewrite Automake and Deja-GNU in Scheme, so they can run in Guile.
+Right now they are written in Perl and TCL, respectively.  There are
+also other programs, not terribly long, which we would also like
+to have rewritten in Scheme.
 
 @item
-Work on the partially-implemented C interpreter project.
+Finish the partially-implemented C interpreter project.
 
 @item
 Help with the development of GNUStep, a GNU implementation of the
@@ -234,8 +239,8 @@ component-oriented operations.  @code{xpaint} exists, but isn't very
 usable.
 
 @item
-A program for manipulating photographs---something vaguely like Photo
-Shop (though not exactly like it).
+A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator
+and Corel Draw.
 
 @item
 An interactive 3D modeling utility with rendering/raytracing capabilities.
@@ -310,10 +315,17 @@ Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you
 could improve).
 
 @item
-Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech).
+Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech is sufficient).
+
+@item
+A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format.
+
+@item
+A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input.
 
 @item
-Scientific mathematical subroutines, including clones of SPSS.
+More scientific mathematical subroutines.
+(A clone of SPSS is being written already.)
 
 @item
 Statistical tools.