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+                    H I S T O R Y 
+                    doc: Tue May 15 18:04:39 2012
+                    dlm: Wed May 13 21:30:07 2015
+                    (c) 2012 A.M. Thurnherr
+                    uE-Info: 70 55 NIL 0 0 72 3 2 8 NIL ofnI
+======================================================================
+
+May 15, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta [.hg/hgrc]
+  - began history
+  - uploaded current version to server for use with first version
+    of re-implemented shear method
+
+May 16, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta2 [.hg/hgrc]
+  - added ANTSlib to doc
+
+May 16, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta3 [.hg/hgrc]
+  - bug fixes for shallow casts [LADCPproc.backscatter]
+  - added support for -r)DI BT data
+
+May 17, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta4 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - minor improvements
+  - relaxation of profile-depth consistency check [LADCPproc]
+
+May 18, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta5 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - fixed bug in [LADCPproc.bestLag] (windowing was off)
+  - reduced implausibly short cast threshold from 10 to 5 mins
+
+May 25, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta6 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - added code to allow reading LDEO_IX BT data to [LADCPintsh]
+  
+Jun 13-15, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta7 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - added CTD_depth to [LADCPproc] default output (.tds)
+  - wrote [README.PostEdit]
+  - in [LADCPintsh] renamed -b to -r
+  - major work on documentation [README]
+  
+Aug 10, 2012:
+  - added [README.YoYo]
+
+Oct 19, 2012:
+  - V1.0beta8 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - fixed bugs in [LADCPproc.loadCTD] [LADCPproc.bestLag]
+  - added [README.TimeLagging]
+  - updated docu
+
+Jul 12, 2013:
+  - V1.1 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - various improvements
+  - DEFAULT VALUES PREVENTS EXTRACTION OF BT DATA
+
+Aug  6, 2013:
+  - V1.2 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - bug fixed in [LADCPproc.defaults]
+
+May  7, 2015:
+  - V1.3 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - many bug fixes and improvements
+  - primary reason for new release is adaptation to Slocum/Explorer data
+
+May 13, 2015:
+  - V1.4 [.hg/hgrc] [LADCPproc.version]
+  - BUG: [LADCPintsh] did not work with ANTS V6 library