New Release

• To: decoders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: New Release
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:37:55 -0600 (MDT)

I'm pleased to announce the release of Unidata NetCDF Decoders 3.1.0 that
include bug fixes for the perl decoders and a new java Grib 1 & 2 decoder.

There has been changes to the perl decoders because starting with perl version
5.8.0 unicode characters are now processed. All of the perl decoders do not use
unicode characters but if they are in the data stream it causes some decoders
to get into a infinite loop and use up all disk space. If your system is using
perl 5.8.0 of higher, then remove the # on the line:

#no decoding;

in the perl decoders if it exists. The line had to be commented for earlier
versions because the earlier interpreter doesn't know how to handle the
no decoding statement.

A new grib 1 and 2 decoders has been added to the release.  A java grib.jar,
junit.jar, jpeg2000.jar, run, IndexFormat.txt file has been added. The run
file contains examples of low level grib decoder routines and the
IndexFormat.txt file explains the structure of the .gbx index files used for
fast data extraction.  The CLASSPATH needs to be set before calling any of the
java routines. In the near future, a grib2nc decoder will be released.

The release is located at Unidata.

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/decoders/index.html

Thanks to Rob Cermak, Keith Brewster, Kurt Hanson, and others for sending in
bug reports.

As always, send questions to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Thanks,
Robb...


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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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