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20020422: gif device in gempak 5.6f linux binary

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  • Subject: 20020422: gif device in gempak 5.6f linux binary
  • Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:52:46 -0600
Could be a problem with adding resize capability to gif.
I'll take a look....still running 7.1 here.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200204222329.g3MNTHa28097

>Just upgraded from gempak 5.6d to 5.6f on 2xXeon Dell boxes at
>RedHat 7.2, kernel 2.4.9-13smp, using the linux binary distro.
>Now my nids station gif-generating scripts are barfing:
>
>Device "gif" will cause gpmap to hang and core dump on executable
>'gif' if I don't gpend between consecutive sessions of gpmap.
>The xw and tiff drivers, for example, don't display this behavior
>(nor did gif in v5.6d nor v5.4).
>
>Any clues? -Neil
>-- 
>Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.                address@hidden
>Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ.        979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466
>