Re: [ferret_users] Announcing Ferret Version 6.0

[Jaison Kurian <jaison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ansley & Ferret team,
                Thanks very much for releasing the new version of 
Ferret. The efforts to improve the NetCDF handling capabilities are 
well appreciated.

I notice few minor problems :

  1. In Ferret download page for 32-bit Linux 
        "**Important**: Linux users, Read this"  This link is not working.

  2. tar.Z files somehow got an extension of tar.tar -->  need to
        rename them before using (mv  file.tar.tar file.tar.Z). Their
        ftp link appears to be OK but the downloaded file will have the
        wrong extension as follows :
     
     The following three files/links in all category (64-bit Linux,
     32-bit Linux, statically linked & Sun) does have this problem :

       Ferret Executables --> fer_executables.tar.tar
       Ferret Environment --> fer_environment.tar.tar
       Ferret Datasets    --> cdf_fer_dsets.tar.tar
     
     The v6.0 documentation html tar file (ferv600_manual.tar.tar)
     also have the same problem.

Thanks and Regards,

Jaison


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Ansley Manke wrote:

>          * * * Announcing Ferret Version 6.0 * * *
> 
>              * * * for Solaris and Linux * * *
> 
> 
> 
> Announcing the official release of version 6.0 of Ferret. This release 
> includes new features, particularly syntax to access and control 
> attributes of variables. This capability also allows us to control the 
> upper- or lower-case spelling of variable names when they are written to 
> netCDF files. A number of bugs are fixed, and most functions previously 
> distributed as external functions are now linked into the Ferret executable.
> 
> The release includes a statically-linked linux executable for Ferret, 
> which should run on many more linux platforms. We also include a 64-bit 
> build of Ferret for linux.
> 
> Web address: http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/ 
> <http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_2005/msg00689.html>
> anonymous ftp: ftp.ferret.noaa.gov
> 
> 
> For a list of new features and bug fixes included in V6.0 see:
> http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/Release_Notes/v600.html 
> <http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_2005/msg00689.html>
> 
> 
> 
> Ansley Manke
> Steve Hankin
> Kevin O'Brien
> Jon Callahan
> Roland Schweitzer
> Jing Li
> Steve Du
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