Azara 1.0 changes
3. Notable changes from 04 Feb 1995 release to 22 May 1995 release
3.01 process : user determination of block size
For nonblocked (sequential) data, the user can now set the block size, instead of letting the program do it. The 'par' file must have the keyword 'blocks' with the following syntax blocks <block size, dim 1> ... <block size, dim #dim> This line must occur after the line with the 'ndim' keyword, and before any occurence of a line with the 'dim' keyword. There must be no occurence of the 'block' keyword. All of the block sizes must be greater than 0. To be compatible with Ansig the product of the block sizes should be 4096.
3.02 contours : fixed contouring bug
When restricting the number of points in any of the dimensions, using the keywords 'pnt_range' and/or 'ppm_range', there are various tricky boundary conditions that need to be analysed, because the input data is blocked, and the boundary points defined by the range do not have to fall on the boundaries defined by the block. There are two dimensions that are contoured, and in the first of these one of the boundary conditions was incorrectly implemented, thus instead of pointer += size_of_block the code should have been pointer += size_of_block - correction where the correction is zero except in the exceptional boundary case.
3.03 process : commands in script files
Script files can now have commands given in the file, rather than in separate (command) files, as was required. Thus the following syntax is now allowed in par files:
script_com <dimension> [ commands ] end_script
Similarly, maxent commands can now be given in a command file (for one-dimensional maxent) or in a script file, using the following syntax:
maxent_com <dim> [ maxent commands ] end_maxent
for one-dimensional maxent, or
maxent2_com <dim 1> <dim 2> [ maxent commands ] end_maxent
for two-dimensional maxent, or
maxent3_com <dim 1> <dim 2> <dim 3> [ maxent commands ] end_maxent
for three-dimensional maxent. Azara help: CHANGES-1.0-3 / W. Boucher / azara@bioc.cam.ac.uk