<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yipppeee!!<br><br>Finally, I've found a version of GrADS that works on my PC running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.<br>All the previous versions gave me a segmentation error.<br><br>But what has happened to writetime? It doesn't seem to be available in gradsdap.<br><br>________________<br>
Derek Goring<br>
<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 3/6/09, Jennifer Adams <i><jma@COLA.IGES.ORG></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jennifer Adams <jma@COLA.IGES.ORG><br>Subject: NEW RELEASE! GrADS 2.0.a6<br>To: GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT<br>Received: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 3:34 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1061681341">Dear All,<div><div>I have posted a new version of GrADS: 2.0.a6. The GrADS downloads web page (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html"><font style="color: rgb(0, 31, 223);" color="#001fdf"><u>http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</u></font></a>) has been updated with links to the source code and a few pre-compiled binaries. Version 2.0.a6 is mostly a bug fix release, but it does have a couple of nice new features: </div><div><br></div><div><b>1. The user can control the undef value in all GrADS output</b></div><div>This feature
controls the undefined values printed to screen with the 'gxout stat' and the 'gxout print' output, as well as the undefined values in fwrite, sdfwrite, and geotiff files. The output undef value is controlled with the 'set undef' command. <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#b51612"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">This fe</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>ature changes the default behavior of GrADS</i></span></font></b></span></font></font>, but <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1f19"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">it is in keeping with the new undef handling in GrADS 2.0. The default output undef value is -9.99e8. This release works fine with GDS
2.0. I have written a documentation page. Please READ THE DOCUMENTATION! </span></font></div><div> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetundef.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetundef.html</a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><b>2. The maximum number of user-defined colors has been increased from 99 to 255</b></div><div>To help you get started using 255 colors, I have written two scripts:</div></div><div> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/rgb255.gs">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/rgb255.gs</a> (defines a lot of colors and draws a demo plot)</div><div> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/cbarm.gs">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/scripts/cbarm.gs</a> (draws a suitable color bar)</div><div>Please feel free to copy and modify these scripts to suit your own needs. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is the complete list of changes in 2.0.a6:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Features:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> * Maximum number of user-defined colors increased from 99 to 255. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> * New commands "set undef" and
"query undef" allow the user to </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> control the undefined data value for all forms of GrADS output. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This affects all the undefined values printed to screen in the </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 'gxout stat' and 'gxout print' output, as well as the undefined </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> values in fwrite, sdfwrite, and geotiff files. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The default output undef value is -9.99e8.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> N.B. THIS
FEATURE CHANGES THE DEFAULT BEHAVIOR OF GrADS! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;"><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> Bugs:<br> * Fixed geotiff code to write out data in correct format<br> * Fixed the background image option to printim<br> * Fixed gancgrid I/O for variables with dimensions in a funky order (i.e. not ETZYX) <br> * Fixed gancgrid response if request is outside of file's bounds<br> * Fixed 'close' command to properly reset defaults<br> * Fixed gribmap printing debugging and error messages in verbose mode<br> * Replaced library function call SDiscoordvar in gasdf.c <br><br> Misc:<br> * more informative error messages when request is beyond file's limits<br> * added chsub option to xdfopen-style descriptors<br> * added -n flag to gr2stn for nearest
neighbor option<br> * changed hard-coded undefs from -9.99e33 to -9.99e8 <br> * changed hard-coded XYBMAX from 500 to 5000 in gxshad.c<br> * configure and src code changes to get rid of XLIBEMU<br> * fixes to GUI configuration<br> * bug fix in gaio.c to change vars lskip and lgrib to type g2int<br> * changed var type to off_t and fixed? optimization issues for x86_64 builds <br> * changed Pixel to gaPixel<br> * removed pcx11e.* from src directory<br> * changed #include syntax for gabufr.h in grads.h<br></span></font></pre><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div></span></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite
302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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