Cleanups, enhancements and fixes by Matthew Wild and me#1

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Commits on Oct 9, 2011

Drop CVSROOT from repository
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Commits on Mar 13, 2012

Make some helper functions more useful by allowing them to receive the stack offset as a parameter
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Allow result_message() and next_message() to take a timeout parameter (nil or negative timeout blocks indefinitely). Compiles but completely untested.
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Commits on Oct 2, 2012