Version 1.2.0

[Ray Osborn]

I personally am against allowing arrays of character strings (I seem to 
remember writing this before) and can probably put something to that effect
on the web.  If someone can provide a convincing reason why they are
necessary, I am willing to reconsider, but I don't think there are any cases
in the current glossary.  If someone is desperate to have this facility,
they can always get around the inhibition by using the EQUIVALENCE method
with NXputdata.

On another topic, I added the compilation flags required to compile NAPI on
our Linux machine to Makefile (commented out, of course).  I think that it
would be helpful if we added other examples that work in the U**x world as
we find them.  If you have successfully compiled using g77, Digital Fortran,
Nag F90 etc, please could you let us know what flags were required so that
we can add them as well.  It took me quite a while to work out how to pass
the right name mangling to work with Absoft, so I'm sure other users would
appreciate the help.

Regards,
Ray
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Dr Ray Osborn                Tel: +1 (630) 252-9011
Materials Science Division   Fax: +1 (630) 252-7777
Argonne National Laboratory  E-mail: ROsborn at anl.gov
Argonne, IL 60439-4845




> Hmm ... the only possible problem i can think of involves NXPUTCHARDATA;
> it takes CHARACTER*(*) DATA, but i guess it could get passed a 2-D
> character array i.e. CHARACTER*(*) DATA(*) ... should we take account of
> this? I think it would just mean keeping a note of the "rank and dim" from
> the last "makedata" statement (in, dare i say it, a COMMON block) and
> using a modified EXTRACT_STRING to pull all of this out into a single byte
> array to pass to "NXputdata".
>
> Freddie
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Ray Osborn wrote:
>
>> I've managed to get our version of Absoft Pro Fortran for Linux up and
>> running again, and successfully tested the C, F77 and F90 versions of all
>> the NeXus files that are currently on the CVS server.  They read each
>> other's test files properly, so I think the main problems with NXputslab
>> etc. have been resolved.
>>
>> I've done all the testing that I have time for now.  Since gcc/Absoft F77
>> and F90 on Linux are sufficiently different from Dec C and Digital Fortran
>> on Alpha/VMS, I'm prepared to let the current version be tagged as v 1.2.0.
>> I've already updated the version numbers in the header files.
>>
>> I suggest that Freddie tag the new version some time on Wednesday, assuming
>> that there are no more bug reports before then.  If you're concerned that I
>> may have screwed anything up, this is your last chance to find out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ray
>> --
>> Dr Ray Osborn                Tel: +1 (630) 252-9011
>> Materials Science Division   Fax: +1 (630) 252-7777
>> Argonne National Laboratory  E-mail: ROsborn at anl.gov
>> Argonne, IL 60439-4845
>>
>>