Namelist read error

Question:

> We are having a problem with our installation.  FERRET has been
> installed and will run from anywhere in the system.  However,
> it will not open any of the datasets provided.  When you click on
> File/Open, it displays the datasets that were provided, and then
> when one is selected and Apply is clicked, it gives the following
> error message:
>
> **TMAP ERR: Error in namelist record
>     Didn't find: FORMAT_RECORD; or file not descriptor file
>     Data set: /usr/local2/ferret/fer_data/descr/etopo60.des

Solution:

The fortran run time environment variable XLFRTEOPTS needs to be set to "namelist=old" in order to for the ferret namelist reads to be successful. An example of the command to set this environment variable in the c shell is:

   % setenv XLFRTEOPTS namelist=old

This command can be inserted into the users .login file to be set up automatically.

Last modified: Oct 27, 2003