Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
is encoded in u-LAW format.  Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #122273.
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index 31be096..45bf1a9 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 	E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
 }
 
-\date{October 16, 2000}		% XXX update before release!
+\date{\today}		% XXX update before release!
 \release{2.0}			% software release, not documentation
 \setshortversion{2.0}		% major.minor only for software
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/howto.cls b/Doc/texinputs/howto.cls
index 33db125..899b4ae 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/howto.cls
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/howto.cls
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 \ProvidesClass{howto}
              [1998/02/25 Document class (Python HOWTO)]
 
+\RequirePackage{pypaper}
 
 % Change the options here to get a different set of basic options,  This
 % is where to add things like "a4paper" or "10pt".