On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Matthijs H.D. van der Wiel wrote:
> I am happy to see the new release going public. It seems to contain
> lots of useful new features and fixes.
>
> After installing the November 2008 Lehuakona release of starlink on my
> Mac OS X 10.5.5 system (intel), I get an error upon trying to open a
> spectrum in Splat. It is _very_ similar to the problem I reported some
> months ago in the previous release. The error message is:
>
> """
> uk.ac.starlink.splat.util.SplatException: Spectrum
> '/Users/MHD/data/SLS/highfreqdata/dataproducts/central4avspec_2500ms.sdf'
> has an unknown type, format or name syntax(guessed: NDF )
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.data.SpecDataFactory.throwReport(SpecDataFactory.java:546)
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.data.SpecDataFactory.get(SpecDataFactory.java:347)
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.data.SpecDataFactory.get(SpecDataFactory.java:222)
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.iface.SplatBrowser.tryAddSpectrum(SplatBrowser.java:1933)
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.iface.SpectrumIO.addSpectra(SpectrumIO.java:312)
> at uk.ac.starlink.splat.iface.SpectrumIO$2.run(SpectrumIO.java:261)
> """
>
> Back then, Peter Draper managed to fix it, see his message of March
> 10th below. But this was aimed at the previous Humu release.
> Would it hurt to unpack Peter's fix and put the files in the
> /star/starjava/lib/i386/ directory of the new Lehuakona install?
Hi Matthijs,
probably not, unless your SLS data are from this year (in which case
you may need the lt-offset fixing script).
I'll investigate the problem and get back to you when I can.
Peter.
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Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper
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