[Met_help] Re: MET FEEDBACK from John Huddleston

[John Halley Gotway]

John,

Thanks for letting us know about that.  I'll change the FILEMXSTRL value to be 512 to be consistent with the other definition.  So once you set those values the same, were you able to successfully run 
MET through cygwin?

John Halley-Gotway

MET.FEEDBACK at rap.ucar.edu wrote:
> First Name = John
> Last Name = Huddleston
> Institution = Easy Computer Solutions
> Email = jhuddleston at hughes.net
> MET Feedback = John,
> 
> I finally got around to figuring out why the Windows CYGWIN PB2NC.EXE was doing a core dump. There is a character boundary issue.
> 
> In your METv1.1 the size of the FORTRAN character file names are FILEMXSTRL which is defined in src/pb2nc/readpb.prm to be 256. The CC calling functions use the max_str_len which is defined in lib/vx_met_util/constants.h as 512.
> 
> John Huddleston, PhD, PE
> formerly with NOAA NCEP