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===Completeness for original Cumulus software===
This page was originally created when only Cumulus 1 was available. It can be assumed that all parameters included here, do apply to the final formal release. When Steve Loft wrote his software in 2008, it seemed reasonable to only specify the choice of years up to 2020 in various selection drop-downs. Mark Crossley has supplied a patch that does not change any of the code, but does change the selection drop downs, and they now expire in 2030. Since 2020s have now been reached, it is to your benefit to upgrade to final '''legacy release''' and apply the patch to the GUI. Both final version and patch can be [[Downloads|downloaded here]].
'''There is no guarantee that all configuration parameters that can be used (if you are running the original software) are in this list'''. Some of this Wiki page was written by Steve Loft, although his entries will be correct, they might not cover all parameters, and they might have been edited by other contributors who might have made errors.
The read-write parameters are correctly specified, as they have been checked against [[Cumulus Screenshots|Configuration screens]]. Please note, there may be typing errors in the explanations of these parameters, where possible text not supplied by Steve Loft directly in this page, has been lifted from text he specified in the Cumulus help, or [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=4 the Cumulus Support Forum], but even cut and paste can be done wrongly!
There is no source available for Cumulus 1, so nobody can check what read-only parameters are available against what is documented below. For read-only parameters there may be errors in both the actual parameter and the explanation!
If you spot a parameter that is missing from this list (check you are looking in the right section, and under the correct sub-heading where a section is sub-divided for ease of using this article), or wrongly described, then please
''The problem is that Steve Loft lost some of his documentation and admitted he could not remember all parameters his code could process.''
* Steve Loft (as developer) did make some entries that are retained on this page (those should be correct)
*Steve Loft also described in his posts on the forum a number of parameters and how they are used (hopefully all those have been copied into this page, but on 2 June 2008, Steve Loft swapped to new forum software and did not retain any posts prior to then, so there is no way to check the relevant posts between 2003 when the software was first released and May 2008)
* ''Please note, this page can only be edited by an administrator, to prevent a MX user changing the wrong page.'' However, there may still be errors in this Wiki page, as mentioned above, please report any errors you find in the [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=38 Cumulus support sub-forum for Wiki corrections].
If you are still using an earlier version of Cumulus 1, it cannot be assumed that all parameters that do not apply to your version are identified. Since the final version of Cumulus 1 cleared most of the bugs present in earlier releases (not quite all, this is still a bug relating to reading pressure from Fine Offset stations), it is to your benefit to upgrade to final '''legacy release''' and apply the patch to the GUI. Both final version and patch can be [[Downloads|downloaded here]].▼
▲If you are still using an earlier version of Cumulus 1, it cannot be assumed that all parameters that do not apply to your version are identified.
▲If you spot a parameter that is missing from this list (check you are looking in the right section, and under the correct sub-heading where a section is sub-divided for ease of using this article), then please add it to this Wiki article. None of the authors who have contributed so far can claim completeness. Sometimes a search on the forum for something else reveals a mention of an additional parameter that can be added to the file but has not been previously added to this list.
== Beta builds ==
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