Thread: Re: sacio.a AND reading in blackboard variable files in version 101.1

Hersh,

The error you are seeing

SAC> rbbf wndbbf_all
ERROR 1203: Could not find VARS section

is because the blackboard files you are trying to read into SAC are
in a different byte order than
the machine you are on. The files can be swapped with a little
effort, but being able to read
blackboard variable files of either byte order should be available in
the next release of SAC.

Cheers,
Brian

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:49 PM , Hersh Gilbert wrote:

Hi SAC help,

I am having trouble reading in files of blackboard variables in the
latest version of sac (101.1) that I created in a pervious version
of sac (100.00). I am running both of these versions of SAC on an
intel mac.

Here is what I get reading the same file (wndbbf_all) into the two
versions of SAC

**** first the old version that works:
/Users/hersh/Desktop/phsii_picked_eves/Event_2007_196_13_08_00 >> /
Applications/sac_old/bin/sac
SEISMIC ANALYSIS CODE [03/01/2005 (Version 100.00)]
Copyright 1995 Regents of the University of California

SAC> rbbf wndbbf_all
SAC> getbb
SACERROR = FALSE
NUMERROR = 0
SACNFILES = 0
NFILE = D.149.BK.YBH.Z
FFILE = D.014.CI.LRL.Z
.... (it goes on)

**** now the same file in the new version:
/Users/hersh/Desktop/phsii_picked_eves/Event_2007_196_13_08_00 >> sac
SEISMIC ANALYSIS CODE [02/05/2008 (Version 101.1)]
Copyright 1995 Regents of the University of California

SAC> rbbf wndbbf_all
ERROR 1203: Could not find VARS section

Just looking directly at this file using more in unix, I see that
the first line looks to start with "VARS"
VARS^@^@^@^A^@D^@<BF>blackboard ^@<C2>^@^ASACERRORFALSE
^@<C2>^@^@NUMERROR0 ^@<C4>^@^@SACNFILES 0 ^@<C2>^@^CNFILE D.
149.BK.YBH.Z ^@<C2>^@^CFFILE
D.014.CI.LRL.Z .... (it goes on)

Has anyone found a way to get these blackboard variable files to
work with the new version of sac?

I may have also ran into some trouble with the version of sacio.a
included in this version having some trouble reading header
variables. I am getting this error in a fortran program that I
compiled with this library:
ERROR: Illegal header field name. AZ
ERROR: Illegal header field name. BAZ


Thanks for any help!
Hersh