[SAC-HELP] SAC version 101.4 is now available

Arthur Snoke snoke at vt.edu
Wed Jun 9 18:14:34 PDT 2010


Version 101.4 of SAC is now available for download from URL 
<http://www.iris.edu/software/sac/>.

For a summary of the changes between this version and 101.3b (released 
August 2009), one can view the HISTORY file at 
<http://www.iris.edu/software/sac/HISTORY.txt>.  That file, as well as the 
more detailed CHANGES file, can also be accessed from the IRIS 
software/sac page.

As before, there are binary distributions for Sun Solaris, Linux (32 bit 
and 64 bit) and Mac OS X.  There are now two binary distributions for the 
Mac: the 32-bit "fat binary" version as in previous releases that can run 
on all OS levels, and a 64-bit version for Mac OS 10.6.  While SAC will 
run on OS 10.6 using the 32-bit distribution, the SAC libraries in that 
distribution will not work in programs built using the 64-bit compilers 
that are the default for OS 10.6.

For licensing reasons IRIS cannot provide a Windows Cygwin binary 
distribution, but SAC can be built on Cygwin from a separately available 
Cygwin source distribution.  However, as of Cygwin version 1.7, it is 
possible to build SAC on Cygwin using the normal source tarball.

A new feature that accompanies this release is that the SAC Users Manual 
at <http://www.iris.edu/software/sac/manual.html> has been updated.  The 
format is different from before, but we think that everything is there 
that was on the earlier set of pages, and -- unlike the earlier versions 
of the manual -- the content of the pages are exactly the same as in the 
help files that one accesses directly from within SAC.  Please report any 
questions/problems/suggestions regarding the manual to <snoke at vt.eud>. 
(Unlike the releases of SAC, the manual can be corrected or updated very 
easily!)

The SAC Development Team
June 9, 2010



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