Re: Systemfunc Not Working

Hi,

I tried this using NCL V6.0.0 on my Mac, and it worked just fine:

% ncl
 Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
ncl 0> print(systemfunc("date"))
(0) Fri Oct 18 15:47:14 MDT 2013
ncl 1> quit

Maybe there's something in your shell environment that could be an issue. Do you have any environment variables set that are out of the ordinary?

I should also note that the version of NCL you have is over 2 years old. You may want to consider upgrading, although I don't know if this will fix your problem.

What kind of system is this on?

--Mary

On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:26 PM, "Ghassan J. Alaka, Jr." <gusalaka@atmos.colostate.edu> wrote:

> Dear NCL-Talk,
>
> Suddenly, I cannot use "systemfunc" within NCL. I just get missing values returned in the NCL scripts that I've used for years. I running version 6.0.0.
>
> Date does not work within systemfunc():
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> ncl 0> print(systemfunc("date"))
> (0) -2147483647
>
> Date works in the terminal:
> galaka@telchines-->date
> Fri Oct 18 12:22:14 MDT 2013
>
>
> Any idea what could have happened and how to fix it?
> --
> Ghassan J. Alaka, Jr., Ph.D. Candidate
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