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Hi Tom, I'm tryingto debug Ben Cotton's problems at Purdue. One of them is the one I described to you earlier. Here are the messages that are appearing in the [system] log: Aug 16 07:29:08 anvil /kernel: pid 32205 (pnga2area), uid 61000: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I ran pnga2area from the command line. I didn't get a core dump, but got the following: (anvil.eas.purdue.edu) [/project/ldm/data/mcidas]% pnga2area -l - -vx temp < 02073000_sie.png Aug 16 17:05:25 pnga2area[52901]: Starting Up in GetFileName mask: 8 band: 4 in GetSatAnnotInfo Aug 16 17:05:25 pnga2area[52901]: Error: unable to find SATANNOT: No such file or directory in GetSatBandInfo Aug 16 17:05:25 pnga2area[52901]: Error: unable to find SATBAND: No such file or directory cres: 4km in ReplaceToken in ReplaceToken in ReplaceToken Aug 16 17:05:25 pnga2area[52901]: output file pathname: temp datoff: 2816 datlen: 2560 cmtlen: 240 Aug 16 17:05:26 pnga2area[52901]: unPNG:: 961865 2422256 2.5183 Aug 16 17:05:26 pnga2area[52901]: Exiting (anvil.eas.purdue.edu) [/project/ldm/data/mcidas]% ls -l temp -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 2422256 Aug 16 12:05 temp I assume the input file was an appropriate choice - I chose the input file based on the following two pqact.conf entries: MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q1 UI PIPE -close /project/ldm/decoders/pnga2area -l /project/ldm/logs/png.log -vx /project/ldm/data/mcidas/%y%m%d%H_sie.mca MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q1 UI FILE -close data/mcidas/%y%m%d%H_sie.png -l /project/ldm/logs/png.log Can you shed any light on this? (We do not yet have any results in /project/ldm/logs/png.log. I'm trying to get that working...) Anne