CGNS Documentation Update

Changes to Documentation and Web Site

• Feb 2001; Documentation web site moved to NASA Glenn.
• Apr 2001; Re-organized the Mid-Level Library manual, and created LaTeX version.
• Aug 2001; New sections added to the User's Guide
  • time-dependent data
  • guidelines for writing and reading PLOT3D data in CGNS files
• Nov 2001; Added files and instructions for downloading and installing the HTML version of the documentation on a local system.
• In Nov 2001, the CGNS documentation web site recorded 2019 page requests from 430 distinct hosts in 33 countries.

Status

• The SIDS document is in the process of being made available as an AIAA "Recommended Practice" publication.
• Changes to several documents will be necessary when support for linked files, user defined data arrays, and chemistry is officially added to the CGNS standard.

Miscellaneous

• A CGNSTalk Majordomo mailing list was created at GRC in July, to replace the CGNSTalk ListBot list, since Microsoft had announced that the free ListBot service was being discontinued in August.
  • As of Jan 10, the CGNSTalk mailing list had 87 subscribers from 17 different countries, and 23 different commercial organizations