netCDF 2.4.2 released

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: netCDF 2.4.2 released
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:20:27 -0600

Hi,

The 2.4.3 release of netCDF, a mostly bug-fix update to netCDF 2.4.2, is
now available via anonymous FTP from

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

The most recent Release Notes, describing the 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and
2.4.3 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 2.4.3 release contains a few minor fixes:

   * Added a couple of omitted steps needed for building under Windows
     NT to the INSTALL document.

   * Added the `-p fdigs,ddigs' option to ncdump.  This replaces and
     behaves like the (now deprecated and undocumented) `-d' option,
     except that it overrides any values specified by the `C_format'
     attribute for float or double values.

   * Made precisions specified by the `-p' or (now deprecated) `-d'
     options apply to float or double attributes as well as data
     values.

   * Fixed cause of potential overflow in ncdump when doing fuzzy
     comparison with fill value.  This might occur when comparing
     values near -FLT_MAX with a fill value near FLT_MAX, or similarly
     for doubles.

   * Ported configuration mechanism to IRIX64 6.2 and GNU make(1) 3.74.

   * Made generation of position-independent code the default.

   * Adapted XDR test program to systems whose <float.h> doesn't define
     FLT_EPSILON and DBL_EPSILON.

   * Improved installation procedures on LINUX systems using the GNU make(1)
     utility.

   * Incorporated improvements for CRAY PVP systems: faster writing
     of initial fill-values and better FFIO error messaging (from
     Robert Swanson -- Lockheed Martin Technical Services, National
     Environmental Supercomputing Center).

   * Corrected typo in FORTRAN manual page: changed NCCREDF to NCREDF.


If you have any questions, please investigate the netCDF Web page at

    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/

or contact us at <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

Regards,
Russ Rew
Steve Emmerson