various fixes in C files

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+               CHANGES IN APE VERSION 3.0-4
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o read.dna() failed to read interleaved files if the first line
+      uses tabulations instead of white spaces.
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+
+    o The files ape-defunct.R and ape-defunct.Rd, which have not been
+      modified for almost two years, have been removed.
+
+    o The C code of bionj() has been reworked: it is more stable (by
+      avoiding passing character strings), slightly faster (by about
+      20%), and more accurate numerically.
+
+    o The C code of fastme.*() has been slightly modified and should
+      be more stable by avoiding passing character strings (the
+      results are identical to the previous versions).
+
+    o The file src/newick.c has been removed.
+
+
+
+               CHANGES IN APE VERSION 3.0-3
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o birthdeath() now catches errors and warnings much better so that
+      a result is returned in most cases.
+
+
+OTHER CHANGES
+
+    o Because of problems with character string manipulation in C, the
+      examples in ?bionj and in ?fastme have been disallowed. In the
+      meantime, these functions might be unstable. This will be solved
+      for the next release.
+
+
+
                CHANGES IN APE VERSION 3.0-2
 
 
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       triangMtds.c have been improved which should fix some bugs in
       the corresponding functions.
 
+    o dist.gene() now coerces input data frame as matrix resulting in
+      much faster calculations (thanks to a suggestion by Markus
+      Schlegel).
+
 
 
                CHANGES IN APE VERSION 3.0-1