t2x Error

[avsfan92]

Hello,

I have come across an error and I am not sure if anybody else has experienced it. When I try to use t2x -c, I get the error message "Sorry, there is no coord- or control-file!". Despite there being both a coord file and control file in the working directory. I am doing this after an aoforce calculation timed out, so I am wondering if that could be why it does not work? I have had no issues with t2x -c in the past, nor with t2x, and neither are working currently.
What files does t2x read from?

Thank you.

[uwe]

t2x -c uses the coordinates from the $coord section of control and in most cases this is a reference to the coord file, so actually the coord file itself is used:

$coord file=coord

If control and coord look OK, then my guess is that your control file stems from a Windows machine while t2x is running under Linux or WSL or cygwin. If the control file has DOS format, the Linux script sees:

$coord file=coord^M

with the ^M as the carriage-return character which Windows adds for each line break - and Linux not. So Linux looks for a file named coord^M and does not find it, as the name is just coord without the carriage-return.

Most editors under Linux recognize DOS format and will not show ^M. But file shows what format it is:

>file control
control: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

run dos2unix * to get rid of the Windows text file format, then you should get:

>file control
control: ASCII text

Afterwards t2x should work as expected.

[avsfan92]

Thank you, Uwe!