Re: Ferret paths cannot be used

[Hein Zelle <zelle@xxxxxxx>]

Roland von Glasow wrote:

> I can start and use Ferret but it seems that all environment variables 
> cannot be used by it even though they are all defined properly and point 
> to the correct directories (checked individually and using "Fenv"). I've 
> tried to use some example datasets which I can only do by explicitly 
> stating the path:

[snip]

> This is the output of Fenv:
> 
> roland@guille:~/check_ferret> Fenv 
> FER_GO=.:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/go:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/examples:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/contrib
> FER_GRIDS=.:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/fer_dsets/grids
> FER_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS=/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/ext_func/libs
> FER_PALETTE=.:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/ppl
> FER_DSETS=/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/fer_dsets
> FER_DATA=.:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/fer_dsets/data:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/go:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/examples:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/contribexport
> FER_DESCR=.:/soft/ferret-5.53RH9/fer_dsets/descr
> FER_WEB_BROWSER=mozilla -ncols 60
> FER_DIR=/soft/ferret-5.53RH9

My ferret environment variables don't seem to use the colon (:) as a
separator, but a space. Could that be the problem?

[bcw014] ~ :-) Fenv 
FER_DSETS=/usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/datasets
FER_DESCR=. /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/datasets/descr
FER_DATA=. /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/datasets/data /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/go /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/examples /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/contrib
FER_GO=. /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/go /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/examples /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/contrib /usr/people/zelle/files/ferret
FER_PALETTE=. /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/ppl
FER_WEB_BROWSER=netscape -ncols 60
FER_DIR=/usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53
FER_GRIDS=. /usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/datasets/grids
FER_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS=/usr/local/free/installed/ferret-v5.53/ext_func/libs


Hein Zelle

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