[svn-r1557] INSTALL:

    Edited for 1.2.0beta release.
INSTALL.ascired:
    Updated with simplified steps.
INSTALL_parallel:
    Updated with information that was in INSTALL and INSTALL.parallel.
INSTALL_parallel.ascired:
    Removed old setup no longer needed.
    RUNPARALEL, RUNSERIAL, disable-shared are specified in config/intel-osf1.
README:
    Update mailing list subscription instruction.
RELEASE:
    Updated for 1.2.0beta release information.
INSTALL_Windows.txt:
    Contains Windows platform installation instructions.
INSTALL.parallel:
    Removed because its content has been moved to INSTALL_parallel.

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 98a3aaa..bc26805 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Release information for hdf5-1.2.0
+Release information for hdf5-1.2.0beta
 ------------------------------------
 
 		     CHANGES SINCE VERSION 1.0.1
@@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ Persistent Pointers
 Parallel Support
 ----------------
 
+* Improved parallel I/O performance.
+
+* Supported new platforms: Cray T3E, Linux, DEC Cluster.
+
+* Use vendor supported version of MPIO on SGI O2K and Cray platforms.
+
+* Improved the algorithm that translates an HDF5 hyperslab selection
+  into an MPI type for better collective I/O performance.
+
 Tools
 -----
 
@@ -94,20 +103,16 @@ Tools
   show file addresses for raw data, to format output more reasonably,
   to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing, 
 
-* Enhancements to h5dump similar to h5ls.
-
-* An hdf5 to hdf4 converter.
-
-  
-
-
+* Enhancements to h5dump: support new data types added since previous
+  versions.
 
+* h5toh4: An hdf5 to hdf4 converter.
 
 
 		    CHANGES SINCE THE Version 1.0.0 RELEASE
 
 * [Improvement]: configure sets up the Makefile in the parallel tests
-  suit (testpar/) correctly.  (Tested for O2K only.)
+  suit (testpar/) correctly.
 
 * [Bug-Fix]: Configure failed for all IRIX versions other than 6.3.
   It now configures correctly for all IRIX 6.x version.
@@ -463,43 +468,42 @@ Ragged Arrays (alpha)
    H5Rwrite		- write to an array
    H5Rread		- read from an array
 
-This release has been tested on UNIX platforms only; specifically:
-Linux, FreedBSD, IRIX, Solaris & Dec UNIX.
 
+			PLATFORMS SUPPORTED
+			-------------------
 
-		RELEASE INFORMATION FOR PARALLEL HDF5
-		-------------------------------------
+Operating systems listed below with compiler information and MPI library, if
+applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0beta was tested.
 
-* Current release supports independent access to fixed dimension datasets
-  only.
+                           Compiler & libraries
+  Platform                      Information              Comment
+  --------                      ----------               -------- 
+                                
+  AIX 4.3.2 (IBM SP)
 
-* The comm and info arguments of H5Cset_mpi are not used.  All parallel
-  I/O are done via MPI_COMM_WORLD.  Access_mode for H5Cset_mpi can be
-  H5ACC_INDEPENDENT only.
+  FreeBSD 3.2                   gcc 2.8.1
 
-* This release of parallel HDF5 has been tested on IBM SP2 and SGI
-  Origin 2000 systems.  It uses the ROMIO version of MPIO interface
-  for parallel I/O supports.
+  HP-UX 10.20                   cc A.10.32.03
 
-* Useful URL's.
-  Parallel HDF webpage: "http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Parallel_HDF/"
-  ROMIO webpage: "http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/thakur/romio/"
+  IRIX 6.5                      cc 7.2.1
 
-* Some to-do items for future releases
-     support for Intel Teraflop platform.
-     support for unlimited dimension datasets.
-     support for file access via a communicator besides MPI_COMM_WORLD.
-     support for collective access to datasets.
-     support for independent create/open of datasets.
+  IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         cc 7.30 
+  			        mpt.1.3 (SGI MPI 3.2.0.0)
 
+  Linux (SuSE and RedHat)       egcs-1.1.2               configured with
+  						         --disable-hsizet
 
+  OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-033
 
-			PLATFORMS SUPPORTED
-			-------------------
+  SunOS 5.6                     cc 4.2                   no optimization
+  			        gcc 2.8.1
+
+  SunOS 5.5.1                   gcc 2.7.2                configured with
+  						         --disable-hsizet
+  TFLOPS O/S 1.0.4              cicc (pgcc Rel 1.7-6i)
+  			        mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
+
+  Unicos 2.0.4.61 (T3E)         cc 6.2.1.0 
+                                mpt.1.3
 
-  Platform(OS)                    C-Compiler       Fortran-Compiler   
-  ------------                    ----------       ---------------- 
-  Sun4(Solaris 2.5)               CC SC4.0         f77 SC4.0            
-  SGI (IRIX v6.5)                 CC 7.21          f77 7.21
-  SGI-Origin(IRIX64 v6.4-n32)     CC 7.2.1.2m      f77 7.2.1.2m     
-  SGI-Origin(IRIX64 v6.4-64)      CC 7.2.1.2m      f77 7.2.1.2m    
+  Windows/NT 4.0/SP3            MSVC++ 5.0 and 6.0