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
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