--------- GENERAL: --------- As always, there were many miscellaneous minor bug fixes. Added two new replay / tape scanning programs, namely 4play (for compressed 4-dimensional hypercubes) and incub8r3 (for compressed 3-dimensional cubes). These programs are similar to the old incub8r; for example, they allow for non-linear gains through the use of look-up tables, etc. However, they use a custom-designed compression algorithm to reduce the size of the files required to hold these huge histograms. See doc/4play.doc and doc/incub8r3.doc for details on how to use these programs, as well as associated programs such as make4cub, pro4d, pro3d, and foldout. Starting with RadWare96, the position and sizes of all graphics windows are saved at normal exit of the programs, and restored at next entry. The values are saved in various files (Unix: .radware.xwg and .radware.xmg, VMS: radware.xwg and radware.xmg) in the login directory. However, some window managers have bugs that cause an improper positioning of the windows, so that with many executions of the programs, the windows tend to "walk" off the screen. To prevent this, it is now possible to fix the values in the file, i.e. not have programs overwrite them with new values at program termination. To do this, simply edit the .radwarew.xwg or .radware.xmg file and replace the first space of the corresponding line with any non-blank character. This will flag the program that you wish for these values to be permanent. Introduced two new cube formats. These are compressed-data formats, and result in significantly smaller files; they are also capable of handling four Bytes per channel, i.e. counts greater than 32k without generating overflows. Like the two old formats, they contain either one-sixth or one-half of the full cube histogram. Removed incub8r_lib.f, and replaced it with incub8r3.c Removed foldout.f and pro3d.f and replaced them with foldout.c and pro3d.c. Added new programs make4cub, split4cub, pro4d. The new pro3d and foldout accept either compressed or uncompressed formats as input, while incub8r3 and the new foldout produce the new compressed cube files as output. Improved numbering of y-scale for axes in plotdata, pdedit and pdplot; they now handle small numbers (between 0 and 1) properly, and automatically use powers of ten for very large or very small values. --------- GF2: --------- Made autocalibration routine in gf2 more robust, and more forgiving in the input spectrum. In particular, the PeakFind (PF) FWHM parameter now determines the peak search width and thus the background window for the automatic peak integration. See online help (CA) and/or doc/autocal.doc for details on the autocalibration function. --------- GLS, ESCL8R, LEVIT8R, 4DG8R: --------- Added program 4dg8r for quadruples analysis. 4dg8r is essentially a 4-dimensional version of levit8r. Levit8r was modified to accept the new compressed-cube formats.