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Release Notes:  Earthworm Version "working"
Cleaned out after release of v7.4 on 4/27/2010

These notes are for release v7.5 

NEW MODULES:
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EWQuakeAlert
A Java 1.6 GUI that receives HYP2000ARC messages from import and creates alert
emails and SMS (sms using clickatel interface) with information about the
event. In addition to the origin info, it sends emails with a google map of
the location and a .png display of the waveforms that had picks. 
Written by Ruben Luis
Loaded into SVN by Paul Friberg 04/18/2011

cont_trig
This module sends regularly trig2k messages in order for a listening trig2disk
to produce continuous data archiving. It can replace the contrecord Perl and modules
of GlowWorm package (used until v6.3).
Based on carlsubtrig module.
Tested under Linux CentOS.
Jean-Marie Saurel 03/12/2010

trig2arc
This module converts trig2k messages into hyp2000_arc messages.
Only the stations that has been trigged are send in the output.
P arrival time is the trigger time for each station, and the weight is 4.
Tested under Linux CentOS.
Jean-Marie Saurel 03/12/2010

seisan_report
This module is contributed from Richard Luckette and Doug Scott of the BGS
and it takes an HYPO2000ARC message and converts it to SEISAN event format.
Paul Friberg 12/07/2010

hyp71_mgr
This module allows to use Hypo71 at the end of the megamodule instead of hyp2000.
The input/output is the same as hyp2000_mgr module.
It allors also to compute and integrate local magnitude using standalone mode
of localmag.
Tested under several Linux flavours.
Jean-Marie Saurel 10/12/2010

ewspectra
This module takes data from one or more waveservers, computes and processes 
their spectra; results can be written either to a file or a ring.  Processing
includes tapering, smoothing, filtering, and peak identification.  Data 
acqusition can be initiated from the config file or from a message read from a 
specified ring (see 'compute_spectra').
Scott Hunter 04/26/2011

compute_spectra
This module posts a message that, when read by ewspectra, begins processing data
starting at the specified date/time.  (Deprecated w/ the creation of
activate_module)
Scott Hunter 04/26/2011

sniffspectra
This module is a sniffwave for spectra messages, as written by ewspectra.  Results
can be directed to stdout or to a different file for each message "sniffed", in
a specified directory.
Scott Hunter 04/26/2011

ewthresh
This module monitors a ring for TRACEBUF2X messages and generates an alarm message 
when a SCNL-specific threshold is exceeded.
Scott Hunter 04/26/2011

activate_module
This module puts an ACTIVATE_MODULE message in the specified ring, the body of
which starts with the module ID of the specified target module, followed by the
remaining command-line arguments.
Scott Hunter 05/05/2011

MODIFICATIONS/BUG FIXES TO EXISTING MODULES:
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tankplayer
Fixed a bug where no heartbeats were issued if the Directory Scanning mode was
used to playback data.
Paul Friberg 04/29/2011

eqassemble
modified main tport_getmsg loop such that messages received with return codes
GET_OK, GET_MISS, and GET_NOTRACK are all processed.  Previously, only msgs
returned with GET_OK were processed. Msgs with GET_MISS and GET_NOTRACK returns
were essentially ignored; only the return code was logged.
Lynn Dietz 04/01/2011

nmxptool
updated nmxptool to version 2.0.0
Matteo Quintiliani 01/24/2011

sniffwave
added in tracebuf2.1 detection capability display (to show a conversion factor instead
of data quality flags). This is fully backward compatible with all prior
versions.
Kevin Frechette 01/12/2011

localmag
Fixed a case where if multiple wave_serverV's were listed, only the first one
was ever polled for data (the rest were marked as duplicates).
Paul Friberg 01/12/2011

export_generic
any linux module using PTHREAD_STACK set to 8192 can possibly segfault on
64-bit linux (unreliably). The thread stack size was increased to 81920
for Linux #ifdefined statement and all problems went away. This was not
tested on Solaris or Windows or Mac OS X.
Paul Friberg 12/02/2010

tankplayer tools, wave_probe, dumpwave, cleandir, glass, startstopservice
On Windows, added kom.obj to link so that the new kom dependency to logit 
is taken into account.
Stefan Lisowski 11/11/2010

tankplayer tools, ew2mseed, dumpwave, getmenu
On Solaris and Unix makefiles, added kom.o to link so that the new kom
dependency to logit is taken into account.
Matteo Quintiliani 11/4/2010

menlo_report
Added parameter EnableLongFileName in the configuration file of menlo_report.
It enables writing arc/sum files with format DATETIME_ID_VER.SUFFIX
(i.e. 201011040932_0000097658_2.arc)
Matteo Quintiliani 11/4/2010

eqcoda
Increased buffer size to 512 bytes for reading a line from the station file.
Same behaviour of pick_ew.
Matteo Quintiliani 8/25/2010

sniffwave
Fixed a misleading print statement when WaveMsg2MakeLocal() failed on a SCNL, it
showed possible spaces in the SCNL that were not really there.
Paul Friberg 8/19/2010

fir
Added QueueSize optional parameter to increase the default from 100
Added SleepMilliSeconds optional parameter to decrease the default from 500ms
Paul Friberg 8/18/2010

statmgr
*Bugfix You can now comment out the line that includes an email addres
        so nobody gets emailed by statmgr, and you don't need to put a 
        fake email address in to get statmgr to start. This is the 
        behavior that is desccribed in the config file. Fix by Paul Friberg
        201006

sniffwave
- Removed hundredths of second from values of latency.
- Changed the SCNL line output format in order to increase the readability.
  Now each field falls nearly at same column.
- Quality fields are now displayed in hexadecimal.
  Before non-ASCII characters were improperly printed to the terminal.
- Distinguished output for gaps and overlaps.
Matteo Quintiliani 6/22/2010

ew2mseed
Removed -D_SPARC from CFLAGS line of makefile.sol. This flag prevented
proper byte-swapping on Solaris for little-endian (Intel) platform.
Ilya Dricker 5/05/2010

ew2mseed
*Bugfix to prevent overflow in printing of location code
*Fixed a condition of a bogus 'FULLY in THE GAP' return from waverserver.
 Now if waverserver insists that the request is fully in the gap, but the
 requested startTime is more than 12 hours AFTER the current time, we redefine
 the waveServer FLAG is 'REQUEST-AFTER-THE-TANK'
Ilya Dricker 5/19/2010

trig2disk
Postproc external script is now launched with tow arguments :
date (YYYYMMDD) and time (HHMM) of the processed event.
Change by Frederic Randriamora.
Jean-Marie Saurel 27/12/2010

CHANGES TO CONFIGURATION FILES and DESCRIPTOR FILES:
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Environment Variable expansion in .d files 
Added file environment/earthworm_commonvars.d for declaring "Earthworm Common Variables"
It is now possible to declare variables like ${...} within .d configuration files
Matteo Quintiliani 11/4/2010

KNOWN BUGS:
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KNOWN DEFICIENCIES:
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