New nam-1.0a5 release announcement

[Ya Xu <yaxu@ISI.EDU>]

Hi,

Nam-1.0a5 has been released.  Instructions for getting and building ns
are at <http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/nam/nam.html>. The previous
release is 1.0a4. 

WHAT'S NAM?
-----------

Nam is a Tcl/TK based animation tool for viewing network simulation traces
and real world packet traces. It supports topology layout, packet level
animation, and various data inspection tools.

Nam began at LBL. It has evolved substantially over the past few years.
The nam development effort is now an ongoing collaboration with the VINT
project.
 
 
WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0a5?
--------------------

Nam includes:
 
-- Namgraph for protocol-specific time-sequence and event-graph plots

-- Nam console with multi-model support which allows to open multi-
   tracefiles simutaneously

-- Layout editor to allow manual adjustment after auto-layout

-- LAN visualization support ( Need ns-2.1b4 to create tracefile for the
    feature. Ns-2.1b4 is not released yet at this moment )

-- Some new examples to demonstrate these new features including 
    nam-1/ex/tcpsrm.nam, tcpecn.nam and lantest.nam. 

-- Various bug fixes (including the error message about the "V" record not
   being understood)

-- Precompiled executable for Win32 platform available from
   (http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/dist/vint/nam1.0a5.exe (dynamic link) 
   and nam1.0a5s.exe(static link))

Nam-1.0a5 is available from
<http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/nam/nam.html>
and requires TclCL-1.0b5, Tcl/TK 8.0p2 and otcl-1.0a3.
 
thanks

Ya Xu

yaxu@isi.edu