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Subject: Re: OS X Scala SCALES file weirdness
From: pre {- at -} MRC-LMB {- dot -} CAM {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK pre {- at -} MRC-LMB {- dot -} CAM {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2007-03-20
The SCALES file is plain text so you should be able to check it with an
editor
Phil

> Hi Folks,
>
> Sorry this is slightly off topic. I have an OS X PPC mac mini and I have
> noticed some very strange behaviour. When I run scala for one example
> the scales file that is produced is exactly 16384 bytes, and when I try
> and restore this scala dies. Now running the same scaling job on an
> intel iMac the scales file is a few bytes larger and can be read
> appropriately.
>
> This suggests to me that a few bytes are being "lost".
>
> Weirder still, if I run the *same* job on an external firewire disk on
> the ppc mac it works fine and produces a slightly bigger than 16k scales
> file. This suggests to me that there is something unhappy about the file
> system on this device. This came with OS X 10.3 and an "upgrade" to 10.4
> instead of a 10.4 fresh install, though I have no idea why this would be
> a problem. On both machines I am running the job in my home directory...
>
> Has anyone noticed this behaviour? More usefully - has anyone got any
> idea of how to prevent it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graeme
>

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