Hi Ferreters, I tryied to make an animation in Ferret following the manual. I did it in this way. I run a first jnlscript, which is supposed to be craeting gif figures, calling a second script which producese the plots by the "fill" command. It should produces 12 images, one for every monthly output. It seems to be working until the 11th and then it gives me the following error message: **ERROR: command syntax: ~ Also instead of producing files called whirl-1, whirl-2, etc., it produces names like : whirl-'l'.gif.~1~, whirl-'l'.gif.~2~ and so on. Here are the scripts: FIRST SCRPT repeat /l=1:12 (go diff_ice_4animation_2000_int.jnl 'l';frame/file=whirl-'l'.gif) SECOND SCRIPT use diff_icecover_2000_int.nc let diceperc = diffice*100 !!!! Seetings!!!! ppl tics 0.125,0.30,0.125,0.30,1,1 ppl axnmtc 2,2 ppl axlabp -1,-1 ppl axlsze 0.14, 0.14 ppl pen 0,7 ppl axlint 1, 1 ppl shakey ,, 0.12 ppl conset,0.1,1,1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !plot difference in ice cover set region /x=90:450 fill /nolabels /pal=light_centered /levels=(-40,40,1)(-80)(80) diceperc[l=12] go fland THANKS IN ADVANCE , MANFREDI. Manfredi Manizza MPhil/PhD Student School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia NR4 7TJ, Norwich United Kingdom email: m.manizza@uea.ac.uk or mmanizza@bgc-jena.mpg.de