[15274] in Athena Bugs
Tecplot problems with cnvtec
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Jul 21 10:54:03 1997
To: vhlupien@MIT.EDU
Cc: dot@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:53:55 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>I have been using tecplot for many years and now with version 7,
>I must convert my old files to the new format using the utility
>cnvtec, provided by AMTEC engineering and available currently on
>Athena. The only problem is that the current version on athena,
>7.0c, is full of bugs. I got the new version of cnvtec from
>AMTEC directly, version 7.0h and it works fine. I was on a Linux
>platform.
>
>Please make sure you update the version to 7.0h so that all Athena
>users may be able to convert their files if they need to.
Hello Vincent,
I have looked into your problem report and found that, due to a bug in
one of our local Tecplot startup scripts, command-line parameters were not
being passed on to cnvtec, which was essentially making this utility
unusable. This has been fixed and it now should be fully functional.
We apologize for the problems this may have caused you.
I also checked with Amtec tech support and they say that you had
contacted them about this. If you have any future problems, please
contact the local MIT maintainers first, via sendbug, as under terms
of our license end-users are not supposed to contact the comapny
directly (unless you have a separate Tecplot license of your own).
They also informed me that changes between cnvtec release 7.0c and 7.0h are
minor, so we are inclined to leave the current version in place unless
there still are significant problems with it- if you still find any,
please let us know.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
Software Acquisition Coordinator
