Release of v 1.3.2

[Ray Osborn]

Version 1.3.2 has now been released.  It contains some enhancements to the
functionality of the NeXus terminal browser, NXbrowse, including the ability
to specify the file name in the command line and to dump data into an ASCII
file (thanks to Mark Koennecke).  It also fixes potential problems when
compiling on systems which do not use 4-byte int's and simplifies the
interface between Fortran and C on Windows systems.  See
<http://www.neutron.anl.gov/NeXus/NeXus_news.html> for more details.  The
complete distribution can be downloaded from
<ftp://hydra.pns.anl.gov/pub/NeXus/>.

Here are the updates to the release notes.

Changes in Version 1.3.2
========================

- NXbrowse now reads a filename as command line argument and only prompts if
  none is specified.

- Added "dump <data_name> <file_name>" command to NXbrowse, which dumps a
  NeXus data array into an ASCII file.
  
- Added a toggle command to NXbrowse, called "byteaschar", which forces
  NX_INT8, NX_UINT8 variables to be printed as character strings.  This is
  for backward compatibility with files created before the definition of the
  NX_CHAR data type.  8-byte global attributes will be treated as characters
  when the program begins, but, after that, the default is to treat NX_INT8
  and NX_UINT8's as integers.
  
- Introduced proper typecasts for dimensions in data access routines.  This
  is to correct problems with systems that do not have 4-byte int's.

- Added in the CALLING_STYLE macro to napi.h to allow correct calling of the
  FORTRAN interface under WINDOWS.  Corrected definition of NXcompress() on
  PC.
  
- Added README.WIN32 to distribution discussing WINDOWS-specific
compilation.

As usual, please report any problems you encounter to this list.

Ray Osborn
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