[Nexus] problems with current stable of nxbrowse and nxdir

[Wintersberger, Eugen]

Already done - 4.3 works fine. 

On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:40 +0000, freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Eugen,
> 
> 4.2.* did not handle variable length strings - I've had a look at your file with the 4.3 branch snapshot kit and that seems to read it OK, are you able to build the 4.3 kit yourself and confirm everything is ok?
> 
> http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/snapshots.shtml
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Freddie
>   
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nexus-bounces at nexusformat.org [mailto:nexus-
> > bounces at nexusformat.org] On Behalf Of Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk
> > Sent: 10 September 2013 10:04
> > To: nexus at nexusformat.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nexus] problems with current stable of nxbrowse and nxdir
> > 
> > I can confirm that we have failure on (some of) our files.
> > My suspicion was that we have arrays as attributes, which for these utilities is
> > unexpected.
> > As I seem to be one of the last few to use command line tools on data files
> > here, there wasn't enough push from clients to get this fixed.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Tobias
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > From: nexus-bounces at nexusformat.org [nexus-
> > bounces at nexusformat.org] on behalf of Wintersberger, Eugen
> > [eugen.wintersberger at desy.de]
> > Sent: 10 September 2013 09:54
> > To: nexus at nexusformat.org
> > Subject: [Nexus] problems with current stable of nxbrowse and nxdir
> > 
> > Hi folks
> >   I got some reports that nxbrowse and nxdir do not work with the Nexus
> > files we produce here at DESY. I can confirm this on my Debian system
> > where libnexus0 is installed in version 4.2.1.
> > 
> > I suspect that this still has a problem that we are using variable
> > length strings and thus cannot read attribute data correctly. I have
> > attached a file for testing. By the way can someone may have a look at
> > the file if we got it at least a bit right ;)
> > 
> > @Benjamin - this file does not collect non-standard fields into
> > NXcollection as we discussed in Warwick. However, our new setups do. I
> > am still working on the draft for a kind of 'best-practice' paper and I
> > hope I can submit it to this mailing list this week.
> > 
> > regards
> >   Eugen
> > 
> > 
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