<html><body>
<DIV>Hi Arlindo,</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks very much. Looks like great new functionality! </DIV>
<DIV>One quick question - Will the Win32 Superpack also correct the issue with reading ascii text files on Windows machines?</DIV>
<DIV>--<BR>Thanks, <BR>Mark</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Arlindo da Silva <dasilva@ALUM.MIT.EDU> <BR>
<DIV>All,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> I have uploaded to <A href="http://sf.net/">sf.net</A> Release 2 of the OpenGrADS extensions for GrADS v1.9.0-rc1. See Release Notes below. Sources and binaries can be downloaded from:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> <A href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=256757">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=256757</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Besides a full set of documentaion, we have added support for reading Grib-2 in v1.9 through a function (quite functional but not the same as the native Grib-2 support in GrADS v2), and support for displaying shapefiles in GrADS. The over 30 functions in Libbjt are now fully documented, including its statistical, thermodynamical, advection and integration functions - check it out. The Poisson solver fish has been improved with functions to compute streamfunction and velocity potential directly from u and v.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A revised Win32 Superpack will be available in the next week or so. Notice that these extensions do not yet work with GrADS v2, neither will it work with v1.9b4.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Let me know of any problems,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Arlindo</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>..................................................................................................................................................................</DIV>
<DIV><BR clear=all>Version 1.9.0-2, 2008-04-02<BR>---------------------------</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This is the Release 2 of the OpenGrADS Extensions for GrADS<BR>v1.9.0-rc1. The following 2 new packages are provided:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> * Grib2 - Reading Grib-2 Files in GrADS v1.9<BR> * Shape - Plotting of Shapefiles (basemaps, etc.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Documentation has been added and revised for the remaining packages:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> * Env - Setting and retrieving environment variables<BR> * Fish - Streamfunction and Velocity Potential<BR> * GsUDF - Writing User Defined Functions as GrADS Scripts<BR> * GxYAT - Highy quality images in PNG, Postscript, PDF and SVG formats<BR> * Libbjt - Ben-Jei Tsuang's Function Collection<BR> * Libipc - Functions for Inter-process Communication<BR> * Re - 2D Regridding</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Please consult:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> <A href="http://opengrads.org/doc/">http://opengrads.org/doc/</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>for an online version of the documentation.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The Poisson solver extension Fish has been revised for robusteness and<BR>ease of use. It now provides functions fish_psi(u,v) and fish_chi(u,v)<BR>for computing streamfunction/velocity potential from the wind<BR>components.</DIV>
<DIV> ---</DIV>
<DIV><BR>-- <BR>Arlindo da Silva<BR><A href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</A> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>