Re: Unusual behavior of 5.53 under RH

[Andrew Wittenberg <Andrew.Wittenberg@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Gary Strand wrote:
> I've got a standard script that I've used successfully for a long time with
> FERRET on various flavours of Solaris that fails with an odd error message 
> when I try to run it on an RH9 Linux box in 'ferret -gif < script.jnl' mode. 
> 
> It runs fine interactively on the Linux box.
> 
> Error:
> 
> prompt>ferret -gif < script.jnl
>         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>         FERRET v5.53  
>         Linux(g77) 2.4.20 - 10/16/03
>          6-Jan-04 15:43     
> 
> yes?   "K"        36  B0750a B0750b B0750c B0750d  
>  **ERROR: unknown command: K
> yes? !
> yes? quit
> 
> Is there something about FERRET under Linux that contains oddities?


Hi Gary,

We ran into this a few months ago at GFDL.  It seems to be a system
buffering issue in Linux.  I don't know if there's been progress on fixing
it yet, but a work-around is to write a short wrapper script, e.g. in your
case a journal file "wrapper.jnl" that just contains "GO script.jnl".  
Then just do "ferret -gif < wrapper.jnl".  More details are below.

Andrew