Development

From time to time I do send e-mails about new versions of our AutoDRM software to interested people. Currently, about 25 addresses are on my list; if you would like to receive such messages, please drop me a mail:

Of course, this is usually only interesting to people running an AutoDRM and using our software.

The newest versions of the Swiss AutoDRM are described as follows:

Since 8Sep2003 the AutoDRM software and the documentation files is no longer available via FTP from us; instead, both the software and the documentation can be downloaded directly from our web-pages from the directory http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/autodrm/downloads.
Before downloading any files, visit the page autodrm_software.html.

New features of version V3.00beta (19Jul2003):

• subr. spamcheck added
• added new rules to subr. spamcheck

New features of version V3.00alpha (29Apr2002 - not widely announced):

• Modified subr. convtime: check for more parameters in date/time for meaningful values
• program splitmailfile.f modified (see there)
• there *must* be a blank between EMAIL and e-mail address
• code modified and added for anti-spam measures
• anti-spam measures modified (allow 'BEGIN GSE')
• in subr. filecheck allow Outlook Express headers...
• in subr. filecheck allow more Outlook Express headers

New features of version V2.99 (12May2001):

• Variable 'wrongtask' is now reset, if taskline contains an illegal character (avoid infinite loop)

New features of version V2.98 (23Mar2001):

• Modified get_opsys.com and Configure for Solaris 5.6
• Modified writewaves4u_local.f: removed unneeded variables

New features of version V2.97 (21Mar2001):

• If a line in a request mail contains one of the following characters <>;$ or if the line starts with '-' write an error message and go to the next line
• Magnitude_TypeList is now given to subroutine writebulletin and is also correctly read in the main program. So, file writebulletin_local.f has changed!
• The scripts STARTautodrm.com and STOPautodrm.com in the ~/adm directory were modified, so that they also work properly if the current working directory (.) is not in the PATH

New features of version V2.96 (18Feb2001):

• Configure script now also works if current directory ( . ) is not in the PATH
• Subr. checkfordifferentmail modified: program diff is not in /bin/diff under Linux
• AutoDRM e-mail address is now also included in the file ~/adm/autodrm.rc - therefore this file has changed (added one line)

New features of version V2.95 (08Aug2000):

• writewaves4u_local was missing in the distribution

Major new features of version V2.94 (03Jun2000):

• Allow parallel processing of requests; see new file autodrm.com
• GSE-format has two meanings: 1) for the way of how AutoDRMs 'speak' to each other and 2) how waveform- or bulletin data is sent. Now we introduce separate variables for these cases (waveformformat & bulletinformat). This requires changes in the subrs. writewaveform and writebulletin !
• Subr. ftphandler modifified: if 'INTER' is set, send file to pub-Directory of the anonymous ftp-account
• Subr. getmsgid modified: read until BEGIN is found, not only until end of header. For compliance with the S/MIME standard. Thanks to David Salzberg, CMR.

New features of version V2.9 (17Jun98):

• Operating systems Linux and OSF1 added in subr. init
• Substitution of logcial 'gse2format' by character*10 gseformat to accomodate for future formats
• Added the feature to request data types bulletin, origin, arrival, etc.

New features of version V2.84 (14Nov97):

• Filesize of sent mails is now computed using an awk-script, thus making it independent from UNIX-platforms (allowing also for HP-UX 10.2).

New features of version V2.83 (4May97):

• Subr. TIMECLEAR was not part of the code; now it is.
• Automatic determination of operating system improved for Solaris 5.5 and higher.
• Subr. FTPHANDLER modified, so that temporary files are automaitcally removed.
• All code modified for usage on Linux and using the g77-compiler.

AutoDRM - New Developments / Problem ReportsThe format description of the new GSE2.1 Format is available as PostScript file here:

• provisional_GSE2.1.ps.gz (gzip'ed version; 206 Kbytes)
• provisional_GSE2.1.ps.Z (compressed version; 425 Kbytes)
• provisional_GSE2.1.ps (ASCII file; 1.43 Mbytes)

If you experience problems with our AutoDRM software, please send a description of the problem to