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The most important pitfalls are:
The most important pitfalls are:


a) Lines longer than 80 characters are truncated silently (FIXME: is this still true?). This happens most often with the NAME_TEMPLATE_OF_DATA_FRAMES keyword line, because the path to the directory with the frames may be long. Fix: use a symlink to the directory with the frames.
* Lines longer than 80 characters are truncated silently (FIXME: is this still true?). This happens most often with the NAME_TEMPLATE_OF_DATA_FRAMES keyword line, because the path to the directory with the frames may be long. Fix: use a symlink to the directory with the frames.


b) Error due to omitting the "=" directly after the keyword (i.e. having an intervening blank).
* Error due to omitting the "=" directly after the keyword (i.e. having an intervening blank).


c) There may be decoding errors in the parameter which may lead to obscure error messages. E.g., see what happens if you provide only one cell parameter instead of six!
* There may be decoding errors in the parameter which may lead to obscure error messages. E.g., see what happens if you provide only one cell parameter instead of six!




Written by --[[User:Kay|Kay]] 14:44, 8 November 2007 (CET)
Written by --[[User:Kay|Kay]] 14:44, 8 November 2007 (CET)
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