Re: Standard input and ferret

[Arne Biastoch <abiastoch@xxxxxxxx>]

"Michel Beland (professionnel de recherche)" wrote:

Michel,

I'm using v5.00 for producing movies, which works fine. In my script
there are two major differences to your commands:

1. I am using csh 
2. I've indented the FERRET commands by two blanks (that might be the
problem).

Here's my script:

foreach snapfile (*.cdf )
ferret >& /dev/null <<EOF
 use "$snapfile"
 go "$movie1"
 frame/file="gif/movie1.gif"
 cancel movie
 exit
EOF1
end

Hope that helps,
		Arne

> A colleague of mine tried to run ferret in a script so that the standard
> input would be read from the script through what is called a here
> document.  Basically, he did something like this (Bourne shell syntax):
> 
> for i in 17 32 45
> do
> ferret <<END
> go script.$i.jnl
> quit
> END
> done
> 
> When I try to run this with ferret v5.00 beta 1.1, I get the yes?
> prompt, the go command is not executed and I cannot type anything.  I
> have to kill ferret from another window.  If I use v4.91, though, it
> works perfectly.  Is there any trick that needs to be done to make it
> work with version 5.0 beta 1.1 or is this a bug ?  I tried also with the
> -batch command line option, but it did not help.  The problem occurs
> using the SGI version compiled for IRIX 6.5.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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