> 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
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=oldThis command can be inserted into the users
.login
file to be set up
automatically.
Last modified: Oct 27, 2003