- preliminary work to interface more parser functions with general
  GEntities

- we can now export simple GModels as.geo files (points, straight line
  segments, plane surfaces, ruled surfaces and volumes are treated
  correctly; all non-straight-line curves are exported as splines; all
  non-plane/ruled surfaces are not exported)

- tentative fix for the unv export problem reported on the mailing
  list (fprintf() buggy on some machines??)

- new IO (both read and write) for structured grids using the NASA
  Plot3D format (for Olivier)

- finished Nastran BDF implementation (read+write in all BDF formats:
  free field, small field & long field)
- improved UNV and Medit import
- added detection of bad vertex indices in all import routines
- fixed bug in 2nd order quad constructor

- changed UNV output to match MSH output w.r.t. physical groups
- new UNV file reader

Added support (both read and write) for the Nastran Bulk Data File
format (BDF).

This might need some adjustments depending on what the actual spec
is: I just reverse engineered some BDF files I found on the web :-)

Implemented new binary MSH file format (both read and write).

A 250Mb mesh file (6 million tetrahedra) is now read or written to disk in
less than 10 seconds (on my powerbook's slow hard drive).