      BRUCE Changes File

31/7/97 - Version 2.71 released

12/8/97 - I discovered today that there is a small error in the bruce
          user manual (section F.2 of my thesis). The parameter
          "use_mode_parameter" in the #timings command description
          should read "use_mode_period".

12/8/97 - I also found out (thanks to an observant user) today that the 
          "stellar_mass" parameter led to a run-time error. Upon inspection,
          I have discovered that the code dealing with it was broken, as
          was the code for the "polar_mks_gravity", so I fixed everything.
          Note that these bugs just stopped bruce from running - they didn't
          lead to erroneous results.


23/12/98 - Added a new TIMINGS parameter INCLUDE_ENDPOINTS which signifies that start and end spectra
           should be calculated at the start and end times, and equally spaced between, rather than
           calculated at the mid-points of equal-sized time-chunks. The latter puts the start and end
           spectra half a time-step in from the time endpoints, and is the "traditional" behaviour.

23/12/98 - Added a new TIMINGS parameter WRITE_TIMINGS_FILE which signifies that a space-separated
           list of dump files and their times should be written to the file $$$$$$$.times

25/1/99  - Added a new TIMINGS parameter TIMINGS_FROM_FILE which allows the times of all the field
           calculations to be specified in a file as a list. The argument of the parameter is the
           file name. Note that this is separate from WRITE_TIMINGS_FILE, which is for writing
           times OUT rather than reading them in. This parameter is exclusive with START_TIME,
           FINISH_TIME, INCLUDE_ENDPOINTS and NUMBER_OF_FIELDS, since the file contains all
           of this information. This change has made it necessary to now store all field times
           in the array Times, which is set up in blojob.f.

25/1/99  - Version 2.8 released
 
