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Release Notes V1.6


Version 1.6 released  8-31-2002  

     WxByte

1.      The Options menu has been changed into a setup screen.  This setup screen contains the items that appeared under the Option menu.

2.      The setup screen now has an option to have 8 additional ingest (distribution) directories.  Changing any of the ingest directories changes the corresponding directories in WxIngest.

3.      Now uses the new WxPurge program for purging the RxTrack and RxTemp directories.  Files older than 2 hours will be deleted.

4.      The duplicate file check routine will now handle file names shorter than 12 characters.

     WxIngest

1.      Added a red and green led next to the file name that is being processed.  A green led indicates that no bad blocks have been received for the message.  A red led indicates that at least one bad block has been received for the message.

2.      The background color of the Error Percent box will change to red if the error percentage is greater than 20.  It changes to yellow when the error percent is between 11 and 20.  It changes to white when the error percent is 10 and below.

3.      The setup screen has been reorganized and now uses a tabbed dialog box.

4.      The setup screen now has an option to have 8 additional ingest (distribution) directories.  Changing any of the ingest directories changes the corresponding directories in WxByte.

5.      Now uses the new WxPurge program for purging the RxTrack and RxTemp directories.  Files old than 2 hours will be deleted.

6.      The duplicate file check routine will now handle file names shorter than 12 characters.

      WxMesgSetup

1.      Updated the WxAlarm.txt format to allow for 6 counties and an execute program name.

2.     The setup program now supports 4 different alarm files.  Selecting a different alarm file will cause WxMesg Server to load that alarm file. 

            3.   Increased the number of alarms from 200 to 400.

     WxMesg

1.      Supports the new WxAlarm.txt format.

2.      Can now execute an external exe program.

3.      No longer saves duplicate messages to the “data path”.  I discovered this not needed and was causing the program to send duplicate messages to the map program during a refresh.

4.     The program now supports 4 different alarm files.  The log file will show the alarm file number that is in use.  It will also record an entry in the log file when the alarm file number is changed.

5.      The file purge routine has been removed from this program.  WxPurge is now responsible for purging files.  WxMesg Server, WxIngest, or WxByte will start WxPurge.  Once started, WxPurge will delete files in the data directory once per hour according to the setup schedule.

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