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Most of the work has involved realignment of code and parsing of arguments to simplify the upcoming port to <A NAME="tex2html650" HREF="http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu"><B>GMT</B></A> 5; a brief listing of more visible changes include <P> <OL> <LI>Coastline files have been updated to use GSHHS version 1.4 which fixes minor inconsistencies in the coastline database. </LI> <LI>All coastline files are now stored in a new subdirectory <U>coast</U> under the <U>share</U> directory, and the tar archives for coastlines now have their own version numbers as they do not change as frequently as the source code. Current coastline version number is 4.1. </LI> <LI>The archives have been reorganized so that <U>GMT_share.*</U> contains all files needed at runtime whereas the standard coastline files are in the new <U>GMT_coast.*</U> archive. The <U>GMT_progs.*</U> archive has been renamed <U>GMT_src.*</U>. </LI> <LI>CPT files can now have <I>z</I>-values that are date-time strings. </LI> <LI>Optionally append <B>z</B> to the <B>-Jp</B> projection to annotate depths (<I>i.e.</I>, ``north-y'') rather than radius. </LI> <LI>Two new tools added to the <I>misc</I><A NAME="5570"></A> supplement for digitizing lines (<A NAME="tex2html651" HREF="../man/gmtdigitize.html"><I><B>gmtdigitize</B></I></A><A NAME="5574"></A>) and to stitch digitized lines into continuous lines or polygons (<A NAME="tex2html652" HREF="../man/gmtstitch.html"><I><B>gmtstitch</B></I></A><A NAME="5579"></A>). </LI> <LI>Extended <B>-M</B> option to take optional modifiers <B>i</B> or <B>o</B> for input or output. </LI> <LI>Added support for custom grd format AGC from Atlantic Geoscience Center, assigned the code <B>af</B> [21]. </LI> </OL> <P> A few programs or options have received minor updates and new features, such as <P> <DL> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html653" HREF="../man/blockmean.html"><I><B>blockmean</B></I></A><A NAME="5585"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>-E</B> for reporting standard deviation, min, and max values per block. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html654" HREF="../man/blockmedian.html"><I><B>blockmedian</B></I></A><A NAME="5591"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>-E</B> for reporting L1 scale, min, and max values per block. Also added <B>-T</B> to specify a particular quartile [Default <I>q</I> = 0.5 = median]. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html655" HREF="../man/blockmode.html"><I><B>blockmode</B></I></A><A NAME="5598"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>-E</B> for reporting LMS scale, min, and max values per block. </DD> <DT><STRONG><I>configure</I><A NAME="5603"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added explicit options to bypass the installation of supplements that require Matlab (-disable-mex) and X11 (-disable-xgrid). </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html656" HREF="../man/gmtconvert.html"><I><B>gmtconvert</B></I></A><A NAME="5607"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>-D</B> option to write segments to individual output files. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html657" HREF="../man/gmtdefaults.html"><I><B>gmtdefaults</B></I></A><A NAME="5613"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Support for new default <B>PS_VERBOSE</B> which controls the writing of comments to <I>PostScript</I> files. <B>COLOR_MODEL</B> can now accept a prefix ``+'' which forces color interpolation in the selected system (RGB or HSV only). Default remains RGB. <B>PS_COLOR</B> has been extended to accept HSV as well (only applies to polygon, symbol, pen, and text colors, not images.). New parameter <B>POLAR_CAP</B> which controls the number of gridlines that converge on the poles for azimuthal and some other projections. Added new default <B>HISTORY</B> [TRUE] which controls whether or not we maintain a common command option history via .gmtcommands4 files. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html658" HREF="../man/gmtmath.html"><I><B>gmtmath</B></I></A><A NAME="5619"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added option <B>-M</B> to indicate the program can now handle multisegment files. Added <B>CPOISS</B> for cumulative Poisson distribution. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html659" HREF="../man/grdmath.html"><I><B>grdmath</B></I></A><A NAME="5625"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>CPOISS</B> for cumulative Poisson distribution. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html660" HREF="../man/minmax.html"><I><B>minmax</B></I></A><A NAME="5630"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: <B>-D</B> made obsolete by improved range checking for longitudes (but available for backwards compatibility). </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html661" HREF="../man/psscale.html"><I><B>psscale</B></I></A><A NAME="5636"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Enhanced <B>-I</B> option for asymmetrical intensity ranges from <I>low</I> to <I>high</I>. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html662" HREF="../man/psxy.html"><I><B>psxy</B></I></A><A NAME="5642"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Added <B>-SW</B> for wedges defined by azimuths rather than directions. Polygons of large longitudinal extent now clip correctly. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html663" HREF="../man/splitxyz.html"><I><B>splitxyz</B></I></A><A NAME="5648"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: New option <B>-Q</B> to specify the output columns and their order. </DD> </DL> <P> Below is a list of previous problems that we have identified and corrected in the current release: <P> <DL> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html664" HREF="../man/gmt_plot.c.html"><I><B>gmt_plot.c</B></I></A><A NAME="5654"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: The 3-D perspective plotting of text was not scaled correctly. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html665" HREF="../man/gmt_support.c.html"><I><B>gmt_support.c</B></I></A><A NAME="5659"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Parsing of <B>-L</B> option used in <A NAME="tex2html666" HREF="../man/psbasemap.html"><I><B>psbasemap</B></I></A> and <A NAME="tex2html667" HREF="../man/pscoast.html"><I><B>pscoast</B></I></A> failed to get correct unit when ddd:mm:ss syntax was used for the position. Corner boundary conditions for grids (needed by <A NAME="tex2html668" HREF="../man/grdtrack.html"><I><B>grdtrack</B></I></A><A NAME="5671"></A>, <A NAME="tex2html669" HREF="../man/grdsample.html"><I><B>grdsample</B></I></A><A NAME="5676"></A>, <A NAME="tex2html670" HREF="../man/grdview.html"><I><B>grdview</B></I></A><A NAME="5681"></A>, and <A NAME="tex2html671" HREF="../man/grdgradient.html"><I><B>grdgradient</B></I></A><A NAME="5686"></A>) had the wrong sign. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html672" HREF="../man/gmt2rgb.html"><I><B>gmt2rgb</B></I></A><A NAME="5691"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Did not check name template properly, and did not initialize region. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html673" HREF="../man/gmtselect.html"><I><B>gmtselect</B></I></A><A NAME="5696"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Option <B>-F</B> insisted on using spherical testing for Cartesian <I>x,y</I> data. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html674" HREF="../man/grd2xyz.html"><I><B>grd2xyz</B></I></A><A NAME="5702"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: The <B>-E</B> option had the <I>y</I>-direction reversed. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html675" HREF="../man/grdfilter.html"><I><B>grdfilter</B></I></A><A NAME="5708"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Needed the <B>-f</B> option to process <B>-R</B>ddd:mm syntax. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html676" HREF="../man/grdimage.html"><I><B>grdimage</B></I></A><A NAME="5715"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Would hang in <I>stdin</I> if <B>-C</B> not given when one grid is plotted. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html677" HREF="../man/grdmask.html"><I><B>grdmask</B></I></A><A NAME="5721"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Did not explicitly close polygons before using them. Test for polar caps applied to the opposite pole. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html678" HREF="../man/grdmath.html"><I><B>grdmath</B></I></A><A NAME="5726"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Command <B>INSIDE</B> for Cartesian data had bug (passed <I>y</I> where <I>x</I> was expected). </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html679" HREF="../man/grdsample.html"><I><B>grdsample</B></I></A><A NAME="5731"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Failed when <B>-I</B> was specified. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html680" HREF="../man/grdview.html"><I><B>grdview</B></I></A><A NAME="5737"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Bug in plotting north facade (<B>-N</B>). Also tried to free unallocated memory if <B>-G</B> was used. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html681" HREF="../man/project.html"><I><B>project</B></I></A><A NAME="5744"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Cartesian projections gave incorrect results for <I>p,w,r,s</I>. Removed 0-360 restriction on azimuth. Option <B>-G</B> was susceptible to round-off and thus sometimes reissued the final point. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html682" HREF="../man/psxy.html"><I><B>psxy</B></I></A><A NAME="5750"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: <B>-SV</B> and <B>-SE</B> for <B>-JX</B> did not convert azimuths to directions. The <B>-Sq</B> option would get confused when distances between successive labels were smaller than the line's point spacing. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html683" HREF="../man/mgd77/mgd77manage.html"><I><B>mgd77/mgd77manage</B></I></A><A NAME="5759"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: Did not properly close the file after ingesting E77 information. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html684" HREF="../man/pslib.c.html"><I><B>pslib.c</B></I></A><A NAME="5764"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: <TT>ps_load_raster</TT> did not use open mode <B>rb</B> and hence failed under Windows. </DD> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html685" HREF="../man/xyz2grd.html"><I><B>xyz2grd</B></I></A><A NAME="5770"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: The <B>-E</B> option had the <I>y</I>-direction reversed. </DD> </DL> A few bug-fixes applies to the supplements as well: <DL> <DT><STRONG><A NAME="tex2html686" HREF="../man/x2sys_get.html"><I><B>x2sys_get</B></I></A><A NAME="5776"></A></STRONG></DT> <DD>: <B>-N</B> did not work properly (now fixed and tested). </DD> </DL> <P> <HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html2758" HREF="node22.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2752" HREF="node10.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2746" HREF="node20.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2754" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2756" HREF="node255.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="index.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2759" HREF="node22.html">1.1.12 Overview of GMT</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2753" HREF="node10.html">1.1 What is new</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2747" HREF="node20.html">1.1.10 Overview of GMT</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html2755" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <B> <A NAME="tex2html2757" HREF="node255.html">Index</A></B> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> Paul Wessel 2010-01-14 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
