[Radiance-general] pcond: error reading from pfilt process in fovimage

[Max D]

I'll try to reproduce the error again when in front of the work machine and let
you know- if I recall correctly I just fed a DIVA-generated HDR (from a
rpict+gencumulativesky run) to pfilt, and it wouldn't eat it. Could not figure
that one out.

m

> Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> hat am 20. Oktober 2014 um 16:35
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Umm...  maybe not.  This is specific to pcond -- I didn't find a similar
> oversight in any of the other programs.  Can you tell me what command(s) are
> giving your errors, exactly?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Greg
> 
> > From: Max D <lists at spacesustainers.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] pcond: error reading from pfilt process in
> > fovimage
> > Date: October 20, 2014 9:21:21 AM CDT
> > 
> > fyi in case anyone was trying to pipe falsecolor /
> > gencumulativesky-generated
> > pics
> > through pfilt lately, the same error seemed to occur in this scenario - glad
> > it'll be cleared up :)
> > 
> > ~Max
> > 
> >> Greg Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> hat am 20. Oktober 2014 um 15:43
> >> geschrieben:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Well, pfilt hasn't changed in 4 years and pcond hasn't changed in 8, so my
> >> only remaining guess is that the new way we're calling popen() under
> >> Windows
> >> is somehow at fault.  This call that was hand-written by Georg Mischler was
> >> recently replaced under Microsoft's Visual-C compiler, and I think the
> >> issue
> >> is that I'm not explicitly setting the binary file type in pcond.
> >>  Schorsch's
> >> win_popen() must have done this for me without my realizing it.
> >> 
> >> I have checked in the new module and it should get recompiled at some
> >> point.
> >> My apologies, and I hope this solves the issue.
> >> 
> >> In the short term, just use the older version of pcond.  It's the same,
> >> anyway.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Greg
> >> 
> >>> From: Jan Wienold <jan.wienold at epfl.ch>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] pcond: error reading from pfilt process in
> >>> fovimage
> >>> Date: October 20, 2014 5:02:09 AM CDT
> >>> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> it must be a Windows problem.
> >>> no problems using mac or linux (head-release 3 weeks ago).
> >>> 
> >>> Jan
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Am 10/20/14, 5:06 AM, schrieb Mostapha Sadeghipour:
> >>>> Hi Radiance community,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Anybody else has issue running pcond in recent versions of Radiance? Here
> >>>> is the error.
> >>>> 
> >>>> pcond: error reading from pfilt process in fovimage
> >>>> 
> >>>> I still have the older version of Radiance (4.2..a) also installed which
> >>>> has no problem with the same image.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Here is one of the images which fails. Cloudy sky for Denver:
> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/f47p292vxe0ivql/CIE_cloudySky_sky_6_21%40900_radAnalysis_skyView.HDR?dl=0
> >>>> 
> >>>> Try pcond -h to reproduce the error.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Mostapha
> >>>> 
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