pre-release: parallel-netcdf 1.0.2pre3

[Robert Latham]

It's been way too long since -pre2.  We've accumulated some more
improvements since then, though, so here goes -pre3.   

Nothing dramatic in this pre-release.  Just a bunch of cleanups:

- more configure checks for various MPI implementation wierdness 
- put_vars now handles NULL stride 
- fixed reference counting 
- add 'gfortran' to the list of fortran compilers
- introduced a new get_file_info() routine
- use MPI_Comm_f2c in the fortran bindings

If you're interested in the pre-release, hit up 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/parallel-netcdf 
for tarballs and SVN information.

One thing I could use some help with is testing on AIX.  I have an
account on an AIX machine, but it's at SDSC and currently offline due
to the wildfires in the area. 

No 6 month lag between this -pre3 and the next release!  The idea is
to put out 1.0.2 around SC07 time.

Thanks and have fun!

==rob (and the rest of the pnetcdf team)

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division    A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF
Argonne National Lab, IL USA                 B29D F333 664A 4280 315B