- Introduced a new trace facility

- Fixed performance problems in many protocol drivers.


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	psi/julprot.c
	psi/phytron.c
	psi/pmacprot.c
	psi/polterwrite.c
	psi/spss7.c

ascon.i

@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ struct Ascon {
  *    value should be 1
  *    when the state was AsconReading, a 1 indicates that a character was read
  *    and the character is stored in the lastChar field. A 0 indicates
- *    that no character was read.
+ *    that no character was read. And this 0 has to be given, otherwise AsconTask 
+ *    goes into an endless loop till timeout is hit!
  *
  *
  * In most cases a custom handler may be a wrapper around AsconBaseHandler