Well I am running NCAR on an Intel Linux box, using
ncarg-4.3.1 which is the latest version I think.
Philippe Marguinaud
>From: Dave Kennison <kennison AT unknown>
>To: pmarguinaud AT unknown
>CC: ncarg-talk AT unknown
>Subject: Re: Using RANGS database
>Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:49:09 -0600 (MDT)
>
>Philippe,
>
> > I am giving a try at RANGS database; I have download the files from
> > http://www.io-warnemuende.de/homepages/rfeistel/index.html, and modified
> > mpex13.f with the path of where I keep the RANGS files. I get an error
>while
> > running mpex13 :
> >
> > POSITION NUMBER 1 Caribbean
> > USING DATABASE "CO"
> > USING DATABASE "Earth..2"
> > USING RANGS/GSHHS DATABASE
> > ERROR 3 IN MDRGSX - SEEK FAILURE IN CEL FILE
> >
> > I have checked out the size of all RANGS files, and they seem to be
>correct.
> > Does somebody has some idea of what I could have missed ?
>
>If you're running this on an IBM and if you don't have the very latest
>version of the EZMAP code to access the RANGS database, then you have
>probably run into a bug that I fixed last November. What I put in the
>log about it was this:
>
> This is to get around a problem with the way the function "ICHAR"
> works on the IBMs.
>
>As I recall, the problem was that ICHAR was doing sign extension for
>characters having a leading bit set, which caused computations of seek
>addresses in the RANGS files to be completely screwed up.
>
>Let me know if this seems to apply ...
>
>Dave Kennison
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