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Differences from XTide 1
[As if anybody remembers XTide 1. This section is now obsolete.]
XTide 2 is a complete redesign of XTide 1. There are too many
subtle improvements to list them all, but here are the not so subtle
ones:
- New interactive user interface for X windows client
- Integrated web server now provided in distribution
- Simpler, better command line interface
- Handles multiple harmonics files transparently
- Subordinate stations are now stored in an external database and
are expanded to handle all known styles of offsets
- Hydraulic currents are fixed
- Removed useless options and modes
- Added sun and moon information (by popular demand...)
- Fast, efficient binary format for harmonics data
These are the non-obvious things you must know in order to migrate:
- The environment variable HFILE is no longer used to specify the
harmonics file; instead, HFILE_PATH is used:
export HFILE_PATH=/usr/local/share/xtide/harmonics.tcd
If HFILE_PATH is not set, XTide looks for the file "harmonics.tcd" in the
default directory.
- XTide now has its own built-in icon. Remove any icon settings that
you made in your window manager init files. [Since the icon protocol
that XTide 2 uses is no longer supported by newer window managers, that
advice can be disregarded.]
- You may no longer use anonymous units in harmonics files. The units
must be one of the recognized alternatives. These are: feet, meters,
knots, knots^2 (for hydraulic currents). If you are still using an
ancient harmonics file that contains no units or "bogo-knots," then
shame on you. It's high time that you upgraded.
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