<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have a new Mac laptop running 10.7.1 (Lion) and the new darwin binaries work on that system too. --Jennifer<div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Dave Allured wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I made a quick test of the new binary version for Mac OS. It ran <br>fine on Mac OS 10.6.8, and it ran my grungy old plot script without <br>a hitch.<br><br>The new environment variable GASHP works great with multiple <br>directories. This allows me to untangle my shape file data sets <br>from the setup for normal Grads data files via $GADDIR. Much <br>appreciated.<br><br>Thanks Jennifer and Brian!<br><br>--Dave A.<br>NOAA/PSD/CIRES<br><br>On 9/29/2011 8:34 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Brian and I are pleased to announce a new release of GrADS, version<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2.0.0. We have worked very hard to make this version as stable as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">possible, and are therefore taking it out of alpha status, skipping<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">over beta altogether, and calling it 'operational'. There is a very<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">long list of new features, bug fixes and miscellaneous additions,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the full text from the ChangeLog is below, please read it carefully.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Highlights of this release, other than its stability, are a new<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">shaded contouring algorithm (which allows for "transparent" colors),<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">support for polygon shapefiles and KML files, and some fixes and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">improvements to the streamlines, including controls for spacing,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">style, and size of the arrows. There are also new versions of some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of the supplibs, enabling the handling of GRIB2 product definition<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">template 4.15, and optimizing the netcdf5/hdf5 interface.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The GrADS downloads web page<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(_http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html_) has been updated with links<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to the source code and a few pre-compiled binaries. Binaries for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">additional operating systems will be posted as they become available.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please report any problems or questions to this forum. Enjoy!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jennifer M. Adams<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">IGES/COLA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Calverton, MD 20705<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a> <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">mailto:jma@cola.iges.org</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2011-09-29 Version 2.0.0<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Features:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * New shaded contouring algorithm: "set gxout shade2"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Polygons are closed, have no holes, do not overlap, and are as large and few in number as is feasible<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Use of -1 for a color # will suppress drawing of the shaded contour, making it effectively transparent<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Legacy shaded contouring routine: "set gxout shade1"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * "set gxout shaded" is now an alias for legacy shaded contouring routine<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Support for creating polygon shapefiles with new option "-poly" to "set shp" command<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Support for creating polygon KML files with new option "-poly" to "set kml" command<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * 1D loglog plots with new command "set log1d"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * New environment variable GASHP, contains 1 or more directories that may contain shapefiles.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> GASHP delimiters are space, semicolon, comma, or colon. Algorithm is:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 1. Tries to open filename as provided by user<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 2. Parses GASHP and prepends each dir to filename<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 3. Prepends GADDIR directory (only one dir) to filename<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * New command "set strmopts" to control streamline density plus arrowhead spacing, size, and type.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Support for negative streamline density values (between -10 and -1) for high-res grids.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Misc:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Mixed case ensemble names are now allowed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Changes to improve masked contour labeling; also now works with "set vpage"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Support for grib1 time range indicator 7, which subtracts the forecast time<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> from the basetime to get the valid time<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Loosened restrictions in gribmap for mapping monthly data<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Previously undocumented command: "screen"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added "query calendar" command to discover calendar mode (unset, 365-day, or standard)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added ":" to list of delimiters for multiple dirs in GASCRP environment variable (now same as GASHP)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added "NULL" as an option for scale factor attribute name in the UNPACK descriptor file entry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> when add offset occurs alone<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Updated wgrib.c to version 1.8.1.2a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Updated grib2scan to show start/ending times for averages, and valid times for instantaneous fields<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Handles GRIB2 Product Definition Template 4.15<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added aliases 'line' for 'ln' and 'point' for 'pt' in 'set shp' and 'set kml' commands<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added alias 'image' for 'img' in 'set kml' command<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Bugs:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed errors when retrieving data from a very large defined object that has more than 2Gb elements.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Patched memory leak when reading NetCDF attributes with lengths larger than 128<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Patched memory leaks in cdiff(), gr2stn(), and coll2gr() functions and collect() command<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Cannot have a leap and no-leap file open at the same time<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Calendar mode cleared with "reinit" only<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed big/little endian error when reading 2-byte binary data<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed bug where 2-point contour segments are not drawn in upper right corner of grid<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed contouring bug for very high res grids with vertices too close together to resolve graphically<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed contouring bug for small grids that left a gap in contour line<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Added check for strictly increasing contour levels<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed streamlines in areas where grid boxes are not square (e.g. near the poles)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Disabled erroneous vector/barb drawing in some projections (mollweide, orthographic, and robinson)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Fixed erroneous results from 'q xy2gr' for some projections (returns -999.9 instead of garbage)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Supplib Updates:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> * Linked with jasper-1.900.1, g2clib 1.2.2, hdf5-1.8.7, netcdf-4.1.3, zlib-1.2.5<br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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