Hiya,

I am pleased to formally announce the LDM ldm-5.0.8 release. There were
some inprogress versions released earlier to solve some pressing issues 
on the Linux platform. For sanity sake, if you have installed an earlier
version of this release, move it to ldm-5.0.8.old before installing the
latest version.  Don't forget to stop the LDM before moving the release and
change the runtime link.

Changes made:

5.0.8
		pqact palt.c was modified to fix \n bug.

		mailpqstats.in was modified for y2k bug

		ldmd.conf added debuging information, etc

		pqact.conf added checking info, ldmadmin new commands

		$(INCDIR)/paths.h no longer depends on definition for
		LDMHOME.

		Added missing "/"-s to file "misc/paths.h.in".

		In protocols/h_clnt.h deleted reference to kerberos error

		New command for ldmadmin  pqactHUP

		For AIX compile
		Removed macro Free, replace with stdlib free
		files: pqact/filel.c pqact/palt.c pqact/pbuf.c 
		pqbinstats/binstats.c pqing/wmo_header.c pqing/wmo_start.c
		pqing/xbuf.c protocol/h_clnt.c misc/alloc.h

		To add the PIL to wmo header changes to 
		files: pqing.c  wmo_header.c wmo_header.h

		ldmadmin watch again uses pqutil

		Modified makefiles: separated "all" and "install"
		targets and simplified rules.

In particular, this distribution does not include the gdbm library,
and so would not be backward compatiable with Peter Neilley's weather.
If someone is building from source (or we are building binaries), an
existing gdbm library can be used by setting the environment variable
GDBMLIB prior to running configure. If the system already has gdbm
installed in a place where the linker can find it simply by '-lgdbm', this
is detected automatically and it is not necessary to set GDBMLIB manually.
This _is_ the case on Linux, so it builds in a Neilly compatible way by
default on Linux.

Glenn also made the WMO header test in pqing/afos_message.c more lenient
for AFOS feed. 

This is a binary as well as a source code release, there are binaries
available for:

linux_2.2-i686/
linux_2.2.5-i686/
osf1_4.0-alpha/
hpux_11.00-hp9000/
sunos_5.6-i86pc/
hpux_10.20-hp9000/
sunos_5.7-i86pc/
sunos_5.7-sparc/
irix_6.5-mips/
sunos_5.6-sparc/
aix_4.3-rs6000/
irix64_6.5-mips/

There are on-line installation instructions on the LDM home page. Report any
problems to support@unidata.ucar.edu  .

Robb...