[daip] LWPLA rpoduces output file when it shouldn't
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Jan 22 13:57:58 EST 2007
Gustaaf van Moorsel writes:
> When running LWPLA, directing the output to a file using OUTFILE,
> and specifying a non-existent PL version number, LWPLA fails, as
> expected, with the error that the specified plot version is not
> found. However, it *does* produce the specified output file, of
> size 0. Clearly, in this case, no output file should be produced
> at all. Not a biggie, but might be worth fixing. Thanks!
>
I have changed the task to defer opening the output until the first
file is opened and the first record read. Actually the empty file
written previously caused no problems - a corrected PLVER would append
correctly to the 0-byte file. But it is confusing.
Eric Greisen
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