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diff --git a/helm/matita/matitaMisc.mli b/helm/matita/matitaMisc.mli
index 36318dc1f..170a87c9b 100644
--- a/helm/matita/matitaMisc.mli
+++ b/helm/matita/matitaMisc.mli
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(* Copyright (C) 2004, HELM Team.
+(* Copyright (C) 2004-2005, HELM Team.
  * 
  * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
  * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@
  * http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
  *)
 
-val is_dir: string -> bool  (** @return true if file is a directory *)
-val is_regular: string -> bool  (** @return true if file is a regular file *)
-
-val input_file: string -> string  (** read all the contents of file to string *)
+val absolute_path: string -> string 
 
   (** @return true if file is a (textual) proof script *)
 val is_proof_script: string -> bool
@@ -38,11 +35,13 @@ val is_proof_object: string -> bool
   * it *)
 val append_phrase_sep: string -> string
 
-val strip_trailing_blanks: string -> string
+val normalize_dir: string -> string (** add trailing "/" if missing *)
+val strip_suffix: suffix:string -> string -> string
 
-  (** Gdome.element of a MathML document whose rendering should be blank. Used
-  * by cicBrowser to render "about:blank" document *)
-val empty_mathml: Gdome.element
+  (** @return tl tail of a list starting at a given element
+   * @param eq equality to be used, defaults to physical equality (==)
+   * @raise Not_found *)
+val list_tl_at: ?equality:('a -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a -> 'a list -> 'a list
 
 exception History_failure
 
@@ -55,6 +54,8 @@ class type ['a] history =
     method previous : 'a    (** @raise History_failure *)
     method load: 'a memento -> unit
     method save: 'a memento
+    method is_begin: bool 
+    method is_end: bool 
   end
 
   (** shell like history: new items added at the end of the history
@@ -66,6 +67,9 @@ class shell_history : int -> [string] history
   * @param first element in history (this history is never empty) *)
 class ['a] browser_history: ?memento:'a memento -> int -> 'a -> ['a] history
 
-  (** {2 db handling} *)
-val dbd_instance: unit -> Mysql.dbd
+  (** create a singleton from a given function. Given function is invoked the
+  * first time it gets called. Next invocation will return first value *)
+val singleton: (unit -> 'a) -> (unit -> 'a)
 
+  (** given the base name of an image, returns its full path *)
+val image_path: string -> string