Tim,
> Does anyone have any ideas on this?
The "Error Reading file names.." messages is generated when an error
occurs reading from the output pipe attached to the child process created
by HDS to expand a file name. Could be that the process is being
terminated abnormally for some reason?
> Obviously I can change the names of all my directories but I'd like to
> know
>
> a) Why HDS is doing a wild card?
Whether or not HDS does file expansion is controlled by the SHELL
tuning parameter (see
http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sun92.htx/node32.html
). Setting environment variable HDS_SHELL to -1 switches off file name
expansion. The reason for file name expansion in HDS is so that users can
use meta-characters when supplying file names (e.g. "$HOME/data/fred",
"~/data/fred", etc).
> b) What is different about perl 5.8.1
A good question...
> c) Why does the perl version matter when I am doing a get on the A-task?
> Doesn't a GET message get sent to the A-task? In which case what
> does the person sending the message have to do with it?
Is the message coming from the sending end or the recieving end?
David
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