[MINC-users] possible bug in cygwin minc2 tools

[Robert VINCENT]

Hi Rupert,

Thanks for the note. I'm sure your analysis is correct. I'll doublecheck
our build processes for Windows and make sure this is fixed.

	-bert

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Rupert Brooks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think i may have found a small bug in the Cygwin minc tools.  If
> this is not the right place to report it please let me know where.
>
> It appears to me that minctoraw is bailing out when it encounters a
> byte of value 26 in a raw data file.  If its what i think it is, Ive
> seen this type of thing before, and its because windows thinks of this
> byte (CTRL-Z) as an end of file character.  There is some sort of
> option you pass to the in/out stream (in C++ anyway) to get around it.
>
> Anyway, to demonstrate the problem, i used the attached binary file,
> and the following command line.  The numbers dont matter, i cut and
> pasted it from something.  Anyway, this works great on the attached
> binary file, on unix, but fails on WinXP with the following message
> (the attached binary is just the following bytes 0 26 0 26 0 26 0 26)
>
> rawtominc: Premature end of file.
>
> I am using the Windows binaries for MINC2 contributed by Leila
> Baghdadi linked from the following page.
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/minc/ I do not know whether this
> problem afflicts other MINC compilations.
>
> Rupert
>
> rawtominc -zyx -byte -unsigned -clobber -input 8bytes.raw -xstep 0.30664 -ystep
> 0.492 -zstep 0.30664 -origin -54.388 -66.8634 -43.9706
> -xdircos 0.9965045488 -0.0338332 -0.0763806179
> -ydircos 0.0280853 0.996779 -0.0751118973
> -zdircos 0.0786759 0.0727041732 0.9942455 8bytes.mnc 2 2 2
>
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> Rupert Brooks
> McGill Centre for Intelligent Machines (www.cim.mcgill.ca)
> Ph.D Program in Intelligent Systems
> http://www.cyberus.ca/~rbrooks
>