What have you done to strings!

[Nicholas Clifton]

Hi Guys.

  OK - what do you think of the attached patch ?  It does the following:

   * Makes -a be strings default behaviour.

   * Adds a new option to strings -d which restores the old
     behaviour of only scanning data sections.

   * Provides a configure time option --disable-default-strings-all
     which restores the old behaviour of strings scanning data
     sections be default.

   * Updates the documentation to describe -d, plus why -a might be
     preferred and how the - option works as well.

   * Adds a NEWS entry about all of the above.

Cheers
   Nick

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