Ferret crashes on USE, for some weird filenames or user-goofs

[karlmsmith]

Reported by @AndrewWittenberg on 26 Feb 2005 04:19 UTC
Better to issue an error rather than crashing outright...

        NOAA/PMEL TMAP
        FERRET v5.70  
        IRIX 6.5 - 06/24/04
        25-Feb-05 23:10     

yes? use 1.

lib-4190 : UNRECOVERABLE library error 
  A numeric input field contains an invalid character.

Encountered during a list-directed READ from an internal file (character variable)
Abort

        NOAA/PMEL TMAP
        FERRET v5.80  
        Linux(g77) 2.4.18 - 01/03/05
        25-Feb-05 23:12     

yes? use .
invalid integer: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort

        NOAA/PMEL TMAP
        FERRET v5.80  
        Linux(g77) 2.4.18 - 01/03/05
        25-Feb-05 23:12     

yes? use 1.1
invalid integer: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort

Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/ferret/ticket/1178

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 28 Feb 2005 17:43 UTC
I think these messages are coming from the INQUIRE library call,
searching for the file -

Under linux rh9, the error messages are:

NOAA/PMEL TMAP
FERRET v5.80  
Linux(g77) 2.4.20 - 01/03/05
28-Feb-05 09:14     

yes? use 1.
invalid integer: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort

FERRET v5.80  
Linux(g77) 2.4.20 - 01/03/05
28-Feb-05 09:19     

yes? use .
invalid integer: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort
NOAA/PMEL TMAP
FERRET v5.80
Linux(g77) 2.4.20 - 01/03/05
28-Feb-05 09:19

yes? use 1.1
invalid integer: read unexpected character
apparent state: internal I/O
lately reading sequential formatted internal IO
Abort

ans under Solaris Ferret does not stop:

NOAA/PMEL TMAP
FERRET v5.80  
Solaris 5.6 - 01/03/05
28-Feb-05 09:18     

yes? use 1.
**TMAP ERR: non-existent or not on line
Searched $FER_DESCR and $FER_DATA for 1.(.des,.cdf,.nc)
yes? use .
** netCDF error: Not a netcdf file
is this a CDF file ?

yes? use 1.1
**TMAP ERR: non-existent or not on line
Searched $FER_DESCR and $FER_DATA for 1.1(.des,.cdf,.nc)
yes?

**TMAP ERR: non-existent or not on line
Searched $FER_DESCR and $FER_DATA for 1.(.des,.cdf,.nc)
yes?

[karlmsmith]

Comment by @AnsleyManke on 5 Jan 2011 01:43 UTC
These errors do not occur with Ferret built with gfortran and netCDF4.1 libraries.