20001209: New version of Ncview, netCDF visual browser, released: 1.92b

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• Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:03:21 -0700

>From: Dave Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:00:15 -0800 (PST)
>Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>Keywords: 200012092100.eB9L0Ko18933 netCDF Ncview 1.92b

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Hello all,

a new version of Ncview, a netCDF visual browser, has been released and is
available from:

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html
  
Ncview is a handy point-and-click tool for getting a fast and easy visual
overview of your netCDF data files.  You can view data along various axes,
and animate along the time axis for simple animations.  If you click on a
spot in the color contour window, a line plot pops up showing details of
how the variable evolves.  Support of time values formatted in 'udunits'
standards is included when udunits is installed.  Ncview does not replace
complex analysis packages such as IDL, Ferret, etc.; rather it complements
them by being quick and easy but still useful.  Ncview uses the X windows
system and runs under various Unix variants, including Linux.

Changes in this release include:
1) Popping up X-Y plots along the time axes with multiple input data files
now works correctly.
2) When you move the mouse over the popup X-Y plot, you get a readout of
the mouse's position in data units.  Very handy!
3) The configuration and installation system has been completely
changed.  It used to use 'xmkmf', which was difficult to deal with because
it is often not installed, or installed incorrectly.  Now it uses the
standard gnu 'configure' tools.  *Please let me know if it does not
install correctly on your system!!*

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David W. Pierce                     / Climate Research Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / (858) 534-8276 (voice)
dpierce@xxxxxxxx                    / (858) 534-8561 (fax)
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