[TowerTalk] nec4.2 bug was Re: Important Information About EZNEC

[Lux, Jim]

On 7/8/21 8:05 AM, Haring family wrote:
> Check his revision history and you should find it. He documents things 
> well.
>
The rev history  here: https://www.eznec.com/Updates50.html

doesn't mention it.
There are a few issues with variable definitions in COMMON blocks 
(documented on W7AY's site), and the use of Intel Specific calls for 
command line arguments, etc. (not really bugs, more a "platform" issue, 
and a  problem with a constant not being double precision.


> regards,
>
> Dave N3AC
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 10:35 AM Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com 
> <mailto:jim at luxfamily.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     >> Dan Maguire ac6la wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Just posted by Roy Lewallen, W7EL:
>     >>
>     >> https://eznec.com/retirement.htm <https://eznec.com/retirement.htm>
>     >>
>     In that retirement page, Roy mentions a known bug in NEC4.2. Does
>     anyone
>     have more information on that?
>
>     "At the time of this writing, the compiled NEC-4.2 from LLNL has been
>     found to contain at least one bug (which has been repaired in the
>     current EZNEC Pro/4), and the recently released NEC-5 has a
>     substantial
>     number. There is currently no one at LLNL able to fix these and no
>     one
>     outside LLNL authorized to distribute updated versions, so anyone
>     purchasing those programs and using them with the public domain EZNEC
>     Pro program will encounter the bugs and may not have any way to
>     get them
>     fixed."
>
>
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