* * * New Releases of GrADS 1.9b4 and GDS 1.3 * * *

[Ben-Jei Tsuang]

Dear Jennifer:

It is very nice to know that the copyright policy has been changed to the
GNU General Public License. This will attract users and developers to
enhance GrADS. I will try to port some of my codes from GrADS 1.8 to 1.9.


Ben



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Adams" <jma at COLA.IGES.ORG>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: * * * New Releases of GrADS 1.9b4 and GDS 1.3 * * *


> COLA is proud to announce the arrival of two new software releases,
> GrADS version 1.9b4 and GDS 1.3!
>
> Both packages are now copyrighted under the terms of the GNU General
> Public License:
> http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/COPYRIGHT
> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/COPYRIGHT
>
> GrADS 1.9b4:
> This release contains numerous new commands and features, fixes of
> reported bugs, new documentation, and stabilization of existing code.
> Enhanced metadata handling has been added as a complement to the new
> GDS release, as well as large file support, new templating options, and
> expansion and improvement of the dtype netcdf/hdfsds interface.
> Complete details of the new release are here:
> http://www.iges.org/grads/whatsnew.html
> Binary executables are available for DEC alpha, Mac OSX, SunOS 5.9,
> three flavors of Linux (RedHat 7.1, RedHat 9, and RedHat Enterprise 3),
> and IRIX 6.5. See the downloads page at
> http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html
>
> GDS 1.3:
> The Java DAP has been updated to version 1.1.7 which implements DAP
> 2.0, the THREDDS XML was updated to version 1.0, and the attribute
> handling has been completely overhauled and updated. Complete details
> of the new GDS release are in http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/README . To
> take full advantage of all the new features, It is highly recommend
> that you also upgrade the version of GrADS running behind GDS. See the
> GDS home page ( http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/ ) for  instructions.
>
> Jennifer
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