File: /outgoing/iris_patches/8.10/README810 This is a summary of the IRIS 8.10 patches available on the SIGMET ftp site. File last updated 16 March 2006. 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") ============================= 8.10 V1 =============================== output.v1.gz -- Posted 13 December 2005 Fixed a bug introduced in version 8.09.11. If you turned on the compression choice for network output, the file name copied did not have the extension like ".gz" added. iris.v1.gz -- Posted 16 December 2005 Fixed two bugs: 1) In the PRJ menu, when using the new Lamberts Conic projection the default button was not filling in the reference parallels. The projection is invalid if the reference parallels are either at the equator, poles, or not in the same hemisphere. 2) In the RAIN1 product configuration menu, the button used to select the input product was getting the wrong list of files for SRI inputs. UfToIris.v1.gz -- Posted on 27 December 2005 UfToIris.conf The UfToIris pipe program is enhanced to allow adding an offset to the UF sweep numbers. For example, if your UF data starts with sweep number 0, you can now add one to all sweeps. See the UfToIris.conf file example for details. suncal.v1.gz -- Posted on 12 January 2006 10suncal.pdf Here is a first draft of the suncal utility program. This will make a sector scan about the sun. Please type "suncal -resave" first to fill in the .conf file. The .pdf file is the documentation. product.v1.gz -- Posted on 13 January 2006 Repaired a bug in the XSECT product. If the cross section line went past a single pixel data bin with no data at neighboring azimuths the pixel was widened an extra half the azimuth resolution both directions. ============================= 8.10 V2 =============================== UfToIris.v2.gz -- Posted on 25 January 2006 The UfToIris pipe program is enhanced to handle a start- of-volume-scan time in the optional header which is inconsistent with the data. The start-of-volume-scan time is compared with the time of the first ray. If the time of the first ray is either earlier, or later by more than 1 minute, then the time of the first ray will replace it with a warning message. zauto7.v2.gz -- Posted 26 January 2006 For RVP8 systems with a broadband noise source for calibration, the zauto utility will calibrate using a single data point scheme. Unfortunately it was not doing this when run in non-interactive mode, that is when invoked with the "-cal" option. This is fixed in this patch. Note when installing - there is already a symbolic link from zauto to zauto7. IrisToGrib1.v2.gz -- Posted 13 February 2006 The pipe was testing an uninitialized variable, and could then signal an uninitialized signal value. This is now fixed. This can be installed on any version of IRIS. iris_agl_svr.v2.gz -- Posted 14 February 2006 This custom program used to interface to the AGL (Aircraft Ground Lighting) was never ported to work on Linux. It now is. The log file now includes time stamps. This can be installed on any version of IRIS. tsimport.v2.gz -- Posted 16 February 2006 This fixes a bug in tsimport. It was failing to recover after a single missing input UDP packet. It will now skip the entire pulse correctly. Logging to the terminal was greatly improved: There was no log if the last packet of a pulse was missing, and similarly except in -debug mode it was not logging missing pulses. Logging now include the time of each message. This must run with a compatible version of the TS API. ============================= 8.10 V3 =============================== iris_agl_svr.v3.gz -- Posted 17 February 2006 Fixes a bug in the iris_agl_svr.v2 above. The log file line for each AGL report input was incorrectly formatted to use multiple time stamps. This can be installed on any version of IRIS. output.v3.gz -- Posted 23 February 2006 Increased the timeout for slow network transfers from 1 minute to 4 minutes. Also includes the output.v1.gz repair. AsterView.v3.gz -- Posted 27 February 2006 IrisToAsterix.v3.gz Fixed incorrect EOP message in IrisToAsterix (it was sending SOP instead). Fixed memory error if AsterView was run on a file that did not exist. It now prints out an informative message. Can be installed on any version of IRIS. rays.v3.gz -- Posted 16 March 2006 productx.v3.gz Line width command line option now will accept values up to 30000. The previous maximum was 200. Also productx on RAW products using the default line width of 85. Can be installed on any version of IRIS. IrisToBufr.v3.gz -- Posted 31 March 2006 IrisToBufr.conf IrisToBufr is enhanced to now support adding as a first header an ASCII WMO Format 00 message length. This is independently turned on in the .conf file with an MESSAGE_LENGTH ON command. This pipe can be installed on any IRIS version. IrisToUf.v3.gz -- Posted 31 March 2006 A bug in IrisToUf was fixed. It was effectively ignoring the DATA table in IrisToUf.conf file. The default data mapping has also been changed. We have added "SQ" to mean SQI, and remapped the following: Old IRIS:UF New IRIS:UF dBZ :CZ dBZ :DZ dBZc:CZ dBZc:CZ dBT :DZ dBT :TZ This pipe can be installed on any IRIS version. ============================= 8.10 V4 =============================== UfToIris.v4.gz -- Posted 25 April 2006 UfToIris now supports RHI inputs. The IrisToUf pipe already did. When upgrading, note the above mentioned changes to the default UF data type names.