Added more description to the "What's new" section.

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@ -147,11 +147,26 @@ We even have one of those URL things:
good thing is that immutable parts of the image can be shared
between processes. see the script scsh/static.scm
** Last few bits of Posix
Scheme bindings for isatty(), ttyname(), ctermid(), and fcntl().
** Regular expression compilation
- MAKE-REGEXP now actually does something useful.
- AWK has been modified to use it, precompiling all of its
patterns outside the main loop.
- Unfortunately, things are still pretty slow. We'll work on it.
** New meta-arg second-line syntax
Simpler grammar.
** New -s<fdes> command line switch
Scripts can be read from stdin or other open file descriptors.
** Etc.
Solaris 2 on i386 support, AIX 4 support, HP-UX now uses dld for
faster loading, a few small networking bug fixs, better error
reporting, bug fixes, ...
reporting, bug fixes, more efficient handling of closing unrevealed
file descriptors at exec() with CLOEXEC, ...
* Thanks