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Greg Thompson wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > I need to add one more comment about your pqact.conf entry to our previous > > discussion. Even if the input and output redirection were to work, > > (although we've already established that > > it won't) there might be another bug. (Or perhaps it's a feature from > > your perspective...) There may be several products that will match the > > ^[AF]SUS0[12] pattern. For each one, > > pqact.conf will spawn another my_decode.pl process. From the way the > > entry is written, each my_decode.pl process will be trying to write to the > > same file. The results could be quite > > scrambled. FYI. > > what a shame that I cannot do redirection - please address this someday > for the EXEC option after all, I could not do in FORTRAN what I'll be > doing in Perl with this decoder. Alternatively, I'd have to use a > few line shell script where I could place the redirection. > > Meanwhile, I'm aware of the consequences with spawning a new proc each time. > It should be fine as this header has very little volume and low update > frequency. > > Thanks > > -- > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Greg Thompson http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/gthompsn/ | > | Research Applications Program | > | (303) 497-2805 National Center for Atmospheric Research | > | (fax) -8401 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 | > +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Greg, I feel your pain! Your point is well taken, and your request is noted. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************