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Julius Zoll ECP/RA and Gottfried Kellner ECP/DI
After twenty years of faithful service the maintenance for the version 4 of Patchy is now stopped completely. Users who plan to continue to use Patchy for the foreseeable future are urged to migrate to the much-improved version 5 which was released last year, after having been used for a couple of years in all the work of the author.
The new reference manual can be found on:
ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cernlib/doc/ps.dir/p5refman.ps.gz
or in
as P5 Reference
The release note, which summarizes the changes, is found in the same directory as
Although the occasion of a re-write of Patchy was seized to provide a number of substantial improvements, back-compatibility was ensured to a very high degree, with 2 exceptions:
mypam .go
The auxiliary programs are now easier to use, because they operate
directly on PAM files in ordinary text format (.car
files), the
``compact binary'' format having been suppressed. The old auxiliaries
ylist
and yindex
reappear as nylist
and
nyindex
. Important new auxiliaries are nydiff
and
nyshell
: nydiff
can be used to derive a correction cradle by
comparing 2 versions of the same PAM file; nyshell
is used with
advantage in re-compiling exactly those routines of a whole program or
package whose source has changed since the last compilation.