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Problem with the astron database on Mac OS X [message #78777]

Tue, 20 December 2011 17:20

rklein
Messages: 5
Registered: June 2009

Junior Member

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 at
http://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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