GrADS News

   
   
What's in GrADS
GrADS Version 1.8SL10 is finally available for DEC alpha systems. The SunOS build has also been upgraded to SL10. See the Downloads Page to get the executables. Further information about the bug fixes and enhancements associated with each 'service level' of version 1.8 is here. The tar file containing the latest version of the source code (1.8sl10) is here.
   
GrADS Version 1.8 is now available for several flavors of UNIX (SunOS 5.7, LINUX redhat7, and IRIX 6) and Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, ME) operating systems. See the Downloads Page to get the executables.
   
Unofficial and somewhat incomplete builds of GrADS version 1.8 are available for Macintosh OSX and
IBM AIX operating systems.
   
The improved and updated Online Documentation is now the most current and accessible GrADS reference. The Users Guide has been completely reorganized and consolidated, and some new sections have been added. Be sure to bookmark the Index which provides a quick and easy interface for checking the syntax and usage of any command or function. Subject headings are also listed in the Index.
 
New sections of the documentation:
Controlling Colors in GrADS
Drawing Arbitrary Cross Sections
Elements of a GrADS Data Descriptor File
Producing Hardcopy and Image Output from GrADS
GrADS Commands Sorted by Attribute
GrADS Functions Sorted by Attribute
Scripting Language Math Functions
Dynamic Loading of Script Functions
 
New or Previously Undocumented Commands:
printim
q dialog
q pos
set datawarn
set defval
set dialog
set dropmenu
set gridln
set hempref
set prnopts
set stat
set stnprint
set timelab
set tlsupp
set warn
set wxopt
 
New or Previously Undocumented Functions:
fndlvl
collect
coll2gr
oabin
sregr
tregr
min
max
minloc
maxloc
sum
sumg
asum
asumg
 
 
The GrADS Script Library is a resource of general-purpose scripts made possible by contributions from users like you.
 
All of the documentation web pages have been collected in a tar file which you may download from the GrADS ftp directory: ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc_files.tar.Z