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

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

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A fresh set of packages based on today's HEAD are on NREL's Github site,
Windows and Mac, Linux to follow. These include the fix for pcond on
Windows.

https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases


- Rob

On 10/20/14, 11:16 PM, "J. Alstan Jakubiec" <alstan at jakubiec.net> wrote:

>Works like a charm on my end -- thank you both for the update.
>
>Alstan
>
>On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:05:46 +0800, Guglielmetti, Robert
><Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov> wrote:
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>> Order is important. Thanks Greg and Rob. =)
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>> On 10/20/14, 9:25 AM, "Mostapha Sadeghipour"
>> <sadeghipour at gmail.com<mailto:sadeghipour at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Works fine on my system. Thanks Rob and Greg!
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Guglielmetti, Robert
>> <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov<mailto:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>>
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>> Yeah so that's not terribly useful info without this link:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/n9m921k4gvgggzj/pcond.exe?dl=0
>>
>> In my defense, Outlook seems to default to sending the email when you
>> press "return" 2x quickly ‹ which is, like, idiotic.
>>
>> Anyhoo, Windows users, please grab the copy of pcond.exe found at the
>> above link and test it out, and report success/failure on this here
>> frequency.
>>
>> - Rob
>>
>> On 10/20/14, 9:16 AM, "Guglielmetti, Robert"
>> 
>><Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov<mailto:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov><mailto
>>:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov<mailto:Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I just built pond with Greg's latest checkin.
>>
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>> On 10/20/14, 7:43 AM, "Greg Ward"
>> 
>><gregoryjward at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com><mailto:gregoryjwar
>>d at gmail.com<mailto:gregoryjward at gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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<mailto:jan.wienold at epfl.ch><mailto:jan.wienold at epfl.
>>ch<mailto: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_ra
>>dAnalysis_skyView.HDR?dl=0
>>
>> Try pcond -h to reproduce the error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mostapha
>>
>>
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