Re: [MAS-discuss] A Comment and a Question

[Chris T. <num...@ya...>]

Hi Jim,

I've consolidated the first two parts of the last
response.

--- Jim Cochrane <jt...@di...> wrote:
> Hi Chris.
>  
> OK, that looks like the classic clue that you
> somehow added a carriage
> return or line feed character (I forget which is
> which - the one that
> causes the output to start at the beginning of the
> line, but not down
> one line) as part of the name.  I believe I've used
> a DOS window before
> to create indicators and have not run into this
> problem (though I may
> be wrong - I may have just used cygwin bash), so I'm
> not sure how it
> would occur.  (Have any other windows users
> encountered this problem?
> Have you found a fix?)  It sounds like you're a
> fairly technical user,
> so you might want to experiment a little and see if
> you can figure out how
> to assign a name without a newline in it, since
> that's likely the sole
> cause of the problem.  If you can't get it to work
> in a DOS window, if
> you have the energy, you might try downloading the
> cygwin bash (UNIX shell
> ported to windows) and try it with that (just search
> google for cygwin).
> 
> Sorry for the funky UI.
> 

Actually, I don't really mind the UI. It takes a while
to get a hang of it, but once you do, it's extremely
powerful.

I grabbed an old Windows VM with cygwin(also used the
a version a bash that came with a old version of the
mks toolkit) and the result is the same when running
the mas server through it. I still get the mangled
indicator names that look like they contain a
CR(\x0d).

I will be mailing you a copy of the indicator file
that I used in this build. However, I think it is
correct and the issue happens when the indicator is
being added to the server. I'll take a better look at
what happens then. 

> > I also have a question about LINEAR SUM. I am
> having
> > problems with this function. This problem exists
> in
> > both 1.6.5 and 1.6.6g so it is likely something
> I'm
> > doing wrong.

In terms of Linear Sum, it looks like I'm using it
incorrectly. However, I've taken a very quick look at
the debug data and something confuses me. I'll post
more information when I get a chance.

Also, when the server dumps core, the server does not
crash and will let you try again.

Thanks for your help,
Ryan



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