[daip] Writing boxes to disk causes abort

[Andy Biggs]

Thanks Eric, that seems to be working now.

Andy

On 26/10/16 22:19, Eric Greisen wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 12:43 AM, Andy Biggs wrote:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I'm finding that AIPS crashes whenever I perform an operation that
>> results in clean boxes being written to file. For example, within IMAGR
>> I get the following:
>>
>> localh> IMAGR1: You have    30 seconds to select a menu item by:
>> localh> IMAGR1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
>> localh> IMAGR1: Press button D for on-line help
>> localh> IMAGR1: Clean continuing
>> localh> IMAGR1: ZABORS: signal 6 received
>> localh> IMAGR1: ABORT!
>>
>> FILEBOX also causes AIPS to crash with the same error.
>>
>> This is affecting my up-to-date 31DEC16 Mac installation. 31DEC15 is not
>> affected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
> There is a routine ZMKTMP.C down at the bottom of the box file text
> handling that had in it a format that has been legal (%010d into a
> 10-character string) up to now.  Apparently it is no longer legal in
> 64-bit Macs.  Changing to %9d and handling char 0-8 works.  I rebuild
> the MNJ just now to test that it - rather than my rather messed up
> version of IMAGR - now works as I expect and it does.  You may run a MNJ
> on 31DEC16 any time.
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> Eric Greisen
>

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