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> Hello, > > Is there a limitation in Gempak 5.10.1 on PowerPC Macintosh with OS-X? > > We've run this with success on Intel-equipped systems, but on an older > G4 we get a bus error when making an image of any kind. I thought I'd > check with you before searching for causes. > > Thanks, John M. > > John, The binary distribution I build is on a PPC (G5 I believe) which shows Darwin 8.8.0: % uname -a Darwin sid.unidata.ucar.edu 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc If you are having trouble on a G4 with possibly older OS-X version, it might be that the message queues aren't supported (Tiger and Jaguar didn't support, but Panther did). Can you check on your Darwin version and/or tell me about how old your OS-X version is? I don't have an Intel based system here, but is nice to know you have had success on that platform. I'm assuming you are running the binary I provided? Steve Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZEX-294741 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Closed