National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
United States Department of Commerce

Version 6.4 Release Notes

Last modified: Fri, 12/04/2009 - 01:51
New Features and Bug Fixes in Version 6.4

New Features:

  1. Grid names may be longer; previously limited to 16 characters, now they may be 64 characters.
  2. Changes are made to xml output that's used by LAS; characters <, >, and & are encoded.

Bug Fixes:

  1. A bug related to nested IF statements is fixed. This bug caused failures for some requests in LAS. The bug was present only in Ferret version 6.3.
  2. The tic marks were incorrect on a plot using PLOT/VLOG for a depth axis. The tic marks on the left-hand axis were correct, but on the right they were drawn as if for a non-depth axis. This is corrected.
  3. The function DAYS1900TOYMDHMS returned incorrect month and day for Feb. 29th in leap years; for the 32-bit linux executable. This is fixed.
  4. Reading "delimited" data: When a variable containing string data is being read, and if all strings in a column ended in "E", the automatic detection of variable type incorrectly marked these as longitudes. This is fixed.