netCDF 2.4.2 released

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: netCDF 2.4.2 released
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 11:17:42 -0600

Hi,

The 2.4.2 release of netCDF, a minor update to netCDF 2.4, is now available
via anonymous FTP from

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z

A patch file containing the differences between release 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 is
available from the same directory as

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/diffs-2.4.1-2.4.2

and the most recent Release Notes, describing the 2.4, 2.4.1, and 2.4.2
releases is also available as text from the same FTP directory or as
hypertext from:

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/release-notes.html

The 2.4.2 release contains a few minor changes:

   * Ported to an Intel 386-based, BSD/OS 2.1 system (but with no FORTRAN
     support).

   * Ported to DJGPP Version 2 for MS-DOS.

   * For CRAY systems, changed XDRing of scalars to use the same functions
     as XDRing of vectors. This provides a workaround for a CRAY problem
     where the same value written as an attribute produced a slightly
     different external representation than when written as a variable.

   * Added the FORTRAN interfaces macro file `linux.m4' to the distribution.

   * Liberalized conditions on use and distribution of the netCDF software
     by changing a sentence in the software copyright notice and in netcdf.h
     from a requirement to a request.

   * Fixed an ncgen bug in generating the proper value for a scalar
     character variable initialized from a string in a CDL file.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                              http://www.unidata.ucar.edu