File: /outgoing/iris_patches/8.08/README808

This is a summary of the IRIS 8.08 patches available on the SIGMET
ftp site.  File last updated 19 May 2005.  The general proceedure
for installing patches is:
 1) Move the file platform/foo.v1.gz to your IRIS_BIN directory.
 2) Rename the file it will replace (e.g. "mv foo foo.v0" )
 3) Uncompress the new file (e.g "gunzip foo.v1.gz")
 4) Make a symbolic link from the original name to the patch.
    (e.g. "ln -s foo.v1 foo"
 5) Set ownership and mode to exactly match the old file.  You can
    see this information with "ls -l foo*".
    (e.g. "chown operator foo.v1", "chgrp users foo.v1", "chmod 775 foo.v1")


============================= 8.08 V1 ===============================
reingest.v1.gz
Fixes 2 bugs in reingest:
1) Reingest was losing the last 2 rays of each sweep because the 
   pointer table was offset by 2.  This would cause many products to
   get the azimuths off by 2 degrees.  Bug introduced in 8.08.
2) Reingest would crash with a segmenation violation when turned
   off in the RST menu.  Bug introduced in 8.07

tsview.v1.gz
Tsview sports several enhancements: It prints the SQI, phase noise,
and dBc at the end of the data printout.  Also added a "-q" option
(for quiet) which suppresses the pulse header lines, and a "-range"
option to pick a subset of range bins.

============================= 8.08 V5 ===============================
HDF5ToIris.v5.gz
Fixes error message "Invalid arg to mpj_pin_region()".  The bug was
introduced in 8.08.

============================= 8.08 V6 ===============================
HDF5ToIris.v6.gz
It was not handling the data gain and offset numbers.  This was never
implemented.  Previously only data using IRIS data format was handled
correctly.

rvp8.v6.gz
The rvp8 was not allowing a user to save and restore the nonvolatile
settings of the AFC pinmap fault pin if "Active Low" was set to "Yes".
Note that this file goes in the /usr/sigmet/bin/rda directory.

============================= 8.08 V8 ===============================

RainbowToIris.v8.gz
RainbowView.v8.gz
RainbowToIris.conf.v8
Added a flag to allow T data in a file with Z turned on in the
W lines.  Also added support for 1 extra trailing zero byte in
the file.  Also added support for TASK table based on the F8
scan file name.

============================= 8.08 V9 ===============================

RainbowToIris.v9.gz
Improved to better handle a mixture of Z and T data.  We have
replaced the W1_Z_MEANS_T flag in the .conf file with a flag
as follows:

# In some cases of reflectivity only mode Rainbow sends T data (F9=3)
# when the W* header says Z.  This flag adds support for that.
# If set, and if P12=0 and F9!=1, then the W* arg 9 is interpreted
# to mean that T data is expected rather than Z data is expected.
# ALLOW_T_DATA

============================= 8.08 V11 ===============================

rtdisp.v11.gz

Fixed the vertical scale on the RHI displays.  It was displaying
everything at half the correct height.  Also fixed displaying
strong blue colors on a window exported to an HP.

============================= 8.08 V12 ===============================

rtd_echo.v12.gz

Rtd_echo has been improved to allow conversion of the RTD V1
format which was in use as of 8.01 to the current version in
use since 8.06.  To use this in a mixed version environment, 
use different port numbers for the two different versions.  
Suppose you use 30730 for an 8.00 system, and 30731 for an 
8.08 system.  Then you would simply need to run a command 
such as the following:

$ rtd_echo -i:30730 -o:30731 -a:192.168.0.255 -c:801

You can supply any desired single address.  Once you have this
working put it in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.  Because it
is a stand-alone program, this can be run on any release
starting at 8.06.  Note that it will not translate features
which were not in 8.01, which include RHI support and changes
related to the max height cutoff.

============================= 8.08 V13 ===============================

IrisToBufr.v13.gz
IrisToBufr.conf.v13

Improvements were made to the WMO GTS header which can be attached
to BUFR files.  We fixed the Date/time field which started with
the month instead of the day.  The bulletin ID string was changed 
to allow control of the last two characters depending on the radar
site.  Please look in the template IrisToBufr.conf file provided
to see the format.  The GTS_BULLETIN_ID line is removed.  The SITE
line have the unused Minutes-West, Lat and Long fields remove,
and a new GTS-ID field added.

============================= 8.08 V14 ===============================

HDF5ToIris.v14.gz

If the product's region shape does not match the pixel dimensions
we now adjust the height scale to match.  The corner changes
are logged to the log file.  The version number is now also
logged if verbose is on.

============================= 8.08 V15 ===============================

HDF5ToIris.v15.gz

Repaired uninitialized memory causing errors in day and month.