[OpenLayers-Dev] Boundaries of a set of points?

[Arnie Shore]

I'm sure I have the terminology wrong, but in making progress in 
converting a GMaps application to OSM/OL, I need the equivalent of the 
former's getBounds and bounds.extend() functions, which deal with the 
boundaries of a set of points.

I've been all over the examples, including the BBOX ones, but I didn't 
see anything relevant.

Thanks for any help on this.  -AS