Ported r2705 and r2706 from the 1.2 line.
The command used was: $ svn merge -r2704:2706 svn+ssh://bugman@.../svn/relax/1.2
This fixes bug #7583 (https://gna.org/bugs/?7583) and fixes a problem with one of the comments in 'specific_fns/model_free.py'.
Authored by: bugman 2006-10-31
Parent: [r2706]
Child: [r2708]
