[brlcad-tracker] [ brlcad-Bugs-2278192 ] mged idents command on Windows

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Bugs item #2278192, was opened at 2008-11-13 19:44
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Category: Geometry Editing
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Lee Butler (lbutler)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: mged idents command on Windows

Initial Comment:
running idents seemd to have changed.

start with a new geometry file.

mged> in box rpp 0 1 0 1 0 1
mged> r box.r u box
mged> in ball sph 0 0 0 1
mged> r ball.r u ball
mged> g all box.r ball.r
mged> idents idents.txt all


On 7.10.4 under linux I get:
1 -8    Summary Table {idents}  (written: Thu Nov 13 14:39:30 2008)
2 -7         file name    : simple.g
3 -6
4 -5
5 -4         user         : Lbutler
6 -3         target title : Untitled BRL-CAD Database
7 -2         target units : mm
8 -1         objects      : all

 1    1001    0    1  100  /all/ball.r:
 2    1000    0    1  100  /all/box.r:
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
1 -8    Summary Table {idents}  (written: Thu Nov 13 14:39:30 2008)
2 -7         file name    : simple.g
3 -6
4 -5
5 -4         user         : Lbutler
6 -3         target title : Untitled BRL-CAD Database
7 -2         target units : mm
8 -1         objects      : all

 2    1000    0    1  100  /all/box.r:
 1    1001    0    1  100  /all/ball.r:
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999

Whereas running under Windows with 7.13.0 produced:
mged> idents idents.txt all
1 -8    Summary Table {idents}  (written: Thu Nov 13 14:27:59 2008)
2 -7         file name    : N:/simple.g
3 -6
4 -5
5 -4         user         : Lbutler
6 -3         target title : Untitled BRL-CAD Database
7 -2         target units : mm
8 -1         objects      : box.r ball.r

 1    1000    0    1  100  /box.r:
 2    1001    0    1  100  /ball.r:
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999
* 9999999

Running idents prints information about running "sort" and "cat" which don't exist on Windows.  That is most likely the problem.


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Comment By: Sean Morrison (brlcad)
Date: 2008-11-13 20:33

Message:
It's a wonder that it works at all on Windows.  There's a lot of unixisms
in the 'idents' command.  There are similar issues with the 'solids' and
'regions' commands because they all run through f_tables().  Manually
creates temporary files in /tmp, relies on cat and sort for some bizarre
reason, and hasn't changed in years.  Probably only works for Bob because
of cygwin.

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