Hi Gary,
First, check that the directories and files have read permissions.
Your directory where apparently the PLOTFONTS environment variable
is set to look for the font files is /contrib/ferret/ppl/fonts/
and should have 35 files or so, fnt01.chr, ..., fnt33.chr, fondat.dat.
If that all seems fine, I wonder if you have some other copy of font
files accidentally installed. The fonts in the environment tar file
are correct. I just downloaded the environment tar file from the 64-
bit LINUX downloads page http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/static/Downloads/linux_x86_64_downloads.html
The file is ftp://ftp.pmel.noaa.gov/ferret/pub/x86_64-linux/fer_environment.tar.Z
And the fonts in that file do work with the 64-bit executable,
ferret_v61. Try just un-tarring the fer_environment tar file. In
the directories that are created, there is a directory ppl/fonts/
Make sure the files and directories have read permissions. Do a
setenv PLOTFONTS ./ppl/fonts
(wherever that directory exists). and then try running the Ferret
executable. Assuming this works, copy the font files to the location
that is pointed to by your PLOTFONTS environment variable, and you
should be good to go.
Let us know whether this works out.
Ansley
Gary Strand wrote:
I've just installed all the latest/greatest ferret 6.1 executables/
environment/datasets on a 64-bit Linux machine here, and while I
can now read those "64 bit offset" files, ferret bombs with the
above error, namely:
prompt> ferret
NOAA/PMEL TMAP
FERRET v6.1
Linux(g77) 2.4.21-32 - 03/25/08
29-Apr-09 10:17
yes? PLOT/VS/LINE/I=1:314 i*cos(i/20),i*sin(i/20)
setfont: Read error on font file:/contrib/ferret/ppl/fonts/fnt01.chr
prompt>
Any suggestions?
Gary Strand
strandwg@xxxxxxxx