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Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? [message #56438 is a reply to message #56437]

Wed, 31 October 2007 15:05

Jeff N.
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Registered: April 2005

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On Oct 31, 6:01 pm, "Jeff N." <jnett...@utk.edu> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> A couple of times now i've run into a strange problem that i haven't
> had time to pay much attention to until now. I'm simply trying to
> read a tiff file with READ_TIFF, but this code fails:
>
> indir = 'g:\'
> infile = 'test.tif'
> inpath = indir + infile
>
> ;cd,indir
>
> indata=read_tiff(infile)
> help, indata
>
> It fails with a file not found error even though I know that the file
> is in the location i'm specifying. Also, the error message prints out
> the full path to the file it's looking for, and it is looking for the
> correct file name, but the directory path it's looking in is always
> the current working directory. So, if i uncomment the call to the CD
> command above, the file gets read with no problem. Has anyone else
> come across this? This isn't the way it's supposed to work is it?
>
> Jeff

BTW, I should add that I don't see this behavior with every tiff file
I try to read. It appears sporadically, and with tiff files created
by different means.

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		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:38
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:10
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Jeff N. on Wed, 31 October 2007 15:05
		Re: read_tiff only looks in current working directory? By: Jeff N. on Thu, 01 November 2007 09:03

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