support bulk messages consisting of small string segments, which are more healthy to the Poly/ML RTS and might prevent spurious GC crashes such as MTGCProcessMarkPointers::ScanAddressesInObject;
syntax: glob
*~
*.class
*.jar
*.orig
*.rej
.DS_Store
.swp
syntax: regexp
^contrib
^heaps/
^browser_info/
^doc/.*\.dvi
^doc/.*\.eps
^doc/.*\.pdf
^doc/.*\.ps
^src/Tools/jEdit/dist/