New decoders release

Hiya,

I'm pleased to announce the tested release of Decoders 2.4.4.  Remember
the last release was a beta release, since then there have been many changes
to make decoders more robust. If any of the following release notes apply or
there are gribtonc messages in the ldmd.log file, I suggest that one
installs the latest release.

Release Notes since last release:

2.4.4 2003-02-25        added vars gust_sfc to ruc2.cdl and vars Tmin_fhg and
                        Tmax_fhg to avn-x.cdl
                        mods to gdes.c gribtocdl.[1c] inetutil.c ulog.h so
                        code compiles on AIX boxes.

2.4.3 2003-02-21        modifications so user parms functionality works
                        correctly in the code, added this functionality to
                        gribdump. Also updated the man pages. mods to:
                        gribtocdl.c, params.c, gribdump.c, gribtonc.1 and
                        gribdump.1

2.4.2 2003-02-19        Added the PNO indicator for Metar decoder
                        In gdes.c, changed i_dim from lat to lon
                        fixed avn-1.0x1.0.cdl also

2.4.1 2003-01-31        Fixed some error for the avn-1.0x1.0 Grid.  Also fixed
                        errors for the Gaussian lat/lon grid, plus other fixes
                        mods to gribtocdl.c gdes.c nc.c

Other fixes forgotten to be entered in Notes.

To reiterate a couple of gribtocdl notes:

- Use a representative dataset when creating a CDL file with gribtocdl. If the
  dataset is missing a variable, it will also be missing in the CDL.

- Consider the created CDL as a starting point, minor tweaks are usually
  needed.

- The external table file feature for variable name override has not
  been tested much, but needs to be used with gribtocdl as well as
  gribtonc to override variable names. It can also be used with gribdump.

- Default variable names follow NUWG conventions.


To get the decoders code via ftp:

% ftp www.unidata.ucar.edu
login as anonymous

% cd pub/decoders
% get decoders-2.4.4.tar.Z


If problems are found, please send email to address@hidden with
information necessary to reproduce the problem, error messages, and log
messages.

Thanks,
Robb...

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