| Re: Problem with the astron database on Mac OS X [message #78767] |
Wed, 21 December 2011 08:13  |
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Russell[1]
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Registered: August 2011
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I'm very familiar with the Astrolib, but not so much with the database
procedures. Can you confirm which instance of the routines that
you're using, maybe issuing something like
findpro,'dbhelp' or 'dbopen', etc. Just to make sure that you don't
accidentally have an old version floating around somewhere?
Russell
On Dec 20, 8:20 pm, rklein <r_kl...@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the database routines from the IDL Astronomy User's
> library: (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/contents.html#C3) on Mac OS X,
> IDL version 7.1.
>
> The following happens when I try to open two linked databases (the
> yale_bs and yale_bs_rmks databases are available athttp://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/zdbase/):
>
> IDL> astrolib
> % Compiled module: ASTROLIB.
> % ASTROLIB: Astronomy Library system variables have been added
> IDL> dbopen,'yale_bs_rmks,yale_bs'
> % Compiled module: DBOPEN.
> % Compiled module: ZPARCHECK.
> % Compiled module: STRSPLIT.
> % Compiled module: DBCLOSE.
> % Compiled module: FIND_WITH_DEF.
> % Compiled module: FIND_ALL_DIR.
> % Compiled module: BREAK_PATH.
> Attempt to subscript SBYTE with I is out of range.
> IDL> dbhelp
> % Compiled module: DBHELP.
> % Compiled module: DB_INFO.
> % Compiled module: TEXTOPEN.
> % Compiled module: FILEPATH.
> % Compiled module: DB_ITEM_INFO.
> ENTRY HR CATEGORY REMARKS SPARES
>
> ------- Indexed Items ------
> HR
>
> ----- Pointer Information ----
> YALE_BS_RMKS.HR ---> YALE_BS
>
> data base contains 9188 entries
> % Compiled module: TEXTCLOSE.
> IDL>
>
> As you can see, only one is opened despite the two being linked.
>
> I also noticed that using "/EXTERNAL" with dbcreate does not work on
> Mac OS.
>
> Does anyone has an idea what is going wrong. Is it an IDL bug on Mac
> OS which treats binary files unexpectedly? Or is there an invalid
> assumption in the database code?
>
> Thanks and happy holidays.
> Randolf
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