<div dir="ltr">There appears to be an archiving error in the taball in the pre-compiled binaries for Linux.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-bash-4.1$ tar -xzvf grads-2.1.a3-bin-CentOS5.11-x86_64.tar.gz<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan<br>tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/bufrscan: Cannot open: No such file or directory<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT<br>tar: ./grads-2.1.a3/bin/COPYRIGHT: Cannot open: No such file or directory<br>./grads-2.1.a3/bin/grads<br><br>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated<br>tar: Unexpected EOF in archive<br>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear All, <div>I have posted a new release of GrADS, version 2.1.a3. This is primarily a bug fix release, although there are some new features in file templating (time templates supported within CHSUB strings) and we are now supporting GRIB2 Product Definition Templates 6 and 10, for percentiles. The problems with metabuffer handling and font file initialization were causing GrADS to steadily increase its memory use … if you are using version 2.1, I would advise you to upgrade. </div><div><br></div><div>The GrADS downloads web page (<a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html" target="_blank"><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 pre-compiled binaries for 64-bit linux and Mac OS X. The full text from the ChangeLog is copied below.</div><div><br></div><div>—Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. GrADS is 28 years old this year! </div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;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;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams<br>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br>111 Research Hall, Mail Stop 2B3<br>George Mason University<br>4400 University Drive<br>Fairfax, VA 22030 <br><br></div><div><br></div><br></span></span><br>
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<pre>2015-03-10 Version 2.1.a3
Features:
* Added support for time template substitutions within a CHSUB string
* Added support for GRIB2 PDTs 6 and 10 (Percentiles)
Bug Fixes:
* Memory leak in metabuffer handling
* Bad error message when netcdf chunksize is bigger than cachesize
* Parsing error for netcdf files with time axis unit "minutes since..."
* Missing data handling in coll2grd function
* Unnecessary re-initialization of font files
* Core dump when using non-existing data variables in a define expression
* Memory leak for grids and stn reports when expression parsing fails
Updated Documentation Pages:
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/library.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/library.html</a>
* <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html</a>
Supplib Update:
* Linked with netcdf-4.3.3
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jeff Duda<br>Graduate research assistant<br>University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology<br>Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms<br></div>
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