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values to sites which don't have them, I'd throw this in the "bad" bug
box as it will silently give you the wrong answer.

In the past I've used @" " as placeholders for no-data records to get
around this. Note that most site modules will be confused by mixed
records like these; really I guess they should check against the "form"
header field but nothing does.

get_site.c only calls G_site_new_struct() once, after that the structure
is never freed or blanked, just overwritten. Thus site->dbl_alloc and
site->str_alloc go up but never down. Maybe ok (or even desirable) for
this to happen, but the values should be reset to NaN's or blank spaces
at least.

I tried freeing it in main.c after G_site_put_new() is called, and
having get_site() call G_site_new_struct() each time it is run, but that
lead to a segfault when a string att was used. Also tried a few other
things but no luck -- but I'm not very good with memory issues so the
problem isn't necessarily a difficult one. Maybe someone else can see
it more clearly.


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Updates (I'll add to 5.7 in the next day or so):

* s.in.ascii should now deal with Mac OS9 and DOS text files without
cryptic error messages. Mac OS9 files are rejected while DOS files are
recovered with a warning message.

* now you can feed it x,y positions without a label or numeric attribute
and it will still work.  (bug #1721)

Please test!!


Hamish