strange error with SHOW AXIS/OUTFILE

[karlmsmith]

Reported by @AndrewWittenberg on 18 Aug 2014 20:58 UTC
Do you reproduce this? What does the error mean?

 	NOAA/PMEL TMAP
 	FERRET v6.923 (beta)
 	Linux 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 64-bit - 07/31/14
 	18-Aug-14 16:54     

yes? sho ax/clobber/outfile="test.txt" month_irreg
yes? sho ax/clobber/outfile="test.txt" month_irreg
**ERROR: test.txt: Success

I'm seeing other issues as well with SHOW AXIS/OUTFILE, which make me wonder whether there's some kind of file-write buffering problem here.

(The application here, is that I'm trying to write a script to determine whether an axis has already been defined...)

Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/ferret/ticket/2194

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 19 Aug 2014 17:47 UTC
Yes, there are bugs; the file was not being closed after each command writes to it. (SHOW with the /OUTFILE qualifier has been well tested and heavily used in combination with /XML, but not without it.)

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AndrewWittenberg on 19 Aug 2014 18:55 UTC
Using the updated version of Ferret, I still see two related errors, back-to-back...

 	NOAA/PMEL TMAP
 	FERRET v6.925  
 	Linux 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 64-bit - 08/19/14
 	19-Aug-14 14:51     

yes? let a = 1
yes? sho var/tree/clob/outfile="a.txt"; list spawn("cat a.txt")
             VARIABLE : SPAWN("cat a.txt")
             X        : 1
        ""
yes? sho var/tree/clob/outfile="a.txt"; list spawn("cat a.txt")
**ERROR: a.txt: Success
sho var/tree/clob/outfile="a.txt"

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 19 Aug 2014 21:53 UTC
Ok, SHOW VAR/VTREE/OUTFILE is fixed as well.