History v101.1¶

These are official releases

2007/03/03 Version 101.0¶

• Supported Platforms: Solaris, Linux (32 bit), and Mac OS X
  (both OSX/PPC and OSX/Intel). On OSX/Intel, a build does not
  work using gcc 3. On OSX/PPC, builds are successful with either
  gcc 3 and gcc 4 for OS 10.4 and gcc 3 for 10.3. A successful build
  is reported on OS 10.2, but builds on 10.4 will not run on 10.2.
  Builds on Solaris 2.9 will work on 2.8. On Linux, successful builds
  on either gcc 3 or gcc 4. Sac is not supported on 64-bit
  architectures, but successful builds on 64-bit machines are reported
  using the -m32 flag with gcc plus other modifications.
• Added ~/utils with sources and makefile for sacswap, saclst,
  and sgftops. Executables are included in ~/bin.
• Major Bug Fixed for all SACIO Library routines.
  Use of library with Fortran and/or C now sane
• Major Bug Fix: Writehdr Different Endian Bug
• Variable: SAC_USE_DATABASE
  Use Database
  If environment variable is undefined or set to 1
  % setenv SAC_USE_DATABASE 1
  Do Not Use Database
  If environment variable is set to 0
  % setenv SAC_USE_DATABASE 0
• Variable: SAC_DISPLAY_COPYRIGHT
  Show Copyright
  If environment variable is undefined
  Do Not Show Copyright
  If environment variable is defined
  % setenv SAC_DISPLAY_COPYRIGHT 1
• YLimit Bug fixed
• Minor Bug Fixes: Compilation Bugs and Warnings, bugs in sgftops
  and sgftoeps.csh
• To Do:
  • Build and Testing
    ./configure system
    Universal Builds on OS X
    Testing suite
  • Known Bugs
    Files that begin with a long integer
    Line termination while parsing files
    No error output on "ch o gmt" truncation, better error reporting
    r pha*? multiple times gives segmentation fault
    Missing SAC> when run in a script
    Error should in in stderr not stdout
    "WARNING: Number 4003 integer too large"
    'lh inclusive non-existent-header' causes a to segfault
    wsac0 does not update all header variables
    SGF files written with one byte order cannot be read
    on systems using the opposite byte order
    "do .. wild" loop bombs if total number of characters
    for filenames too large ** Plotting Bugs
    Plotpk cross-hairs
    Time shrinks on plots with lots of records
    Reformat Plotting Window
  • General Code Cleanups
    Merge files that overlap, better merge code
    remove code repetition, hdr.h, extfuncs.h, and SacHeader.h
    Use of common blocks, global variables
    rolllback command does not work
  • Additional Functionality
    Scalability, 1000 files, more, no limit ?
    write with a format
    e.g. "write kzdate.%kztime.%kstnm.%knetwk. kcmpnm.sac"
    get/set functionality
    includes initialization file
    and setting "set lh.columns 2"