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On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, David Berry wrote:

>> On 24/11/16 16:14, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>> The fuller message is:
>>>
>>> !! Truncation during copy (destination 132 < source 182) of
>>> !
>>> '/loc/pwda/pdraper/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratc
>>> !
>>> h/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/...
>>> !  DAT_PUT: Error writing value(s) to an HDS primitive.
>>> !  The list of valuess supplied for parameter IN was too long.
>>> !  FITS2NDF: Error converting a FITS file into an NDF.
>>> !  Application exit status DAT__TRUNC, Text truncated
>>> !
>>>
>>> /loc/pwda/pdraper/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/sc
>>>
>>> !
>>> ratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scratch/scr
>>> !     atch/scratch/scratch/ngc1275.fits temp
>>>
>>> David, seems to be in a call to GRP_GROUP (found using that spelling
>>> mistake, "valuess"), which is odd. Aren't groups allowed to be 255
>>> characters?
>
> Yes, that's right. GRP uses 255 as the buffer length. I think the 132
> limit is set in subpar. Going into the subpar source directory and
> doing "grep 132 *.f" brings up loads of places where 132 is a
> hard-wired constant.

Thanks for checking. Seems we're stuck with this then.

Cheers,

Peter.

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