V6.0 PCI Software Bug List

Updated: Tuesday, 12-Mar-96 10:57:32 EST

The following is a list of known bugs with V6.0 PCI Software.

Follow this link for known bugs in V5.3 and V5.3.1 PCI Software.

If a problem indicates a fix is available from PCI, and your site is under maintenance (has a paid up support contract) then you can contact PCI Support at the email address support@pci.on.ca to arrange a fix to be made available on the PCI ftp site. Users not under support may check the FTP Fixes area of the ftp site; however, if the bug fix has not been built for the users system type they are out of luck.

V6.0 / V5.3 Tape I/O Package on OS/2 Warp

PCI's Tape I/O package does not work with OS/2 Warp. There is no work around short of reverting to a pre-Warp version of OS/2, or reading tapes on another platform. It is unclear if this will be corrected in the future.
CSR 95071415

V6.0 ADAPT/ERRDIFF/RGB2PCT on IBM AIX and AXP OSF/1

The ADAPT, ERRDIFF and RGB2PCT PACE programs produce incorrect results on IBM AIX, and AXP OSF/1. This problem is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 95101313

V6.0 FLY!

FLY! will not correctly produce movie loop files. This is due to an problem in the JPEG software being used, and should be fixed for the V6.0.1 maintenance release.
CSR 95120414

V6.0 ImageWorks Transform (HP/UX Only)

On HP Workstations, the ImageWorks Transforms (Rotate, Scale and Flip) produce corrupted images. There is no work around, but it is fixed in the V6.0.1 maintenance release.
CSR 95121218

V6.0 STDIJPL

On some platforms, with some datasets the following error may occur. The problem has been fixed in V6.0.1.

forrtl: error: floating invalid E610:Execution terminated/aborted
CSR 95122703

V6.0 ImageWorks on Windows 3.1

On the PC when you go into the Tools/filter panel with an image loaded into imageworks, the image previews window comes up but there is no image. Even if you select a filter type the image data is not updated in the preview window.

This appears to be a Mach64 video driver problem. There is no known workaround, or fix.
CSR 96011506

V6.0 ORBITWR/ORBITRD on Windows NT/96/3.1

When you run ORBITWR/ORBITRD on a windows 31 platform with an orbit segment in a PCIDSK file, you get the following error:

floating point not supported.

A fix is available on our FTP site, and the fix will be part of the V6.0.1 release.
CSR 96011507

V6.0 ImageWorks Transform

The Transform Panel in ImageWorks doesn't work properly for 16 bit signed image planes. This is corrected in V6.0.1, and can be worked around by converting image planes to 32 bit real in the Image Info panel before applying a transform.
CSR 96011809

V6.0 MOSAIC

Cutlines specified for MOSAIC.EXE do not work when the bounds for FILI and FILO differ. The program uses the FILI georeferencing in conjunction with a cutline, when it should use the FILO georeferencing.

This has been fixed and will be available in the V6.0.1 maintenance update.
CSR 96011904

V6.0 GCPWorks Map Tiedown

When collecting GCPs from a "LONG/LAT" map, in tieing down the map GCPWorks will coredump when the Geocoded/Geographic menu option is "Geocoded". (For a LONG/LAT map, it's not supposed to matter as "Geocoded" and "Geographic" are the same thing.)

This may be avoided by selecting "Geographic" instead of "Geocoded" before entering the LONG/LAT values in the tiedown text fields.

This has been fixed and will be available in the software point release V6.0.1.
CSR 96012403

V6.0 ImageWorks Transform

Entering text in the rotate, or scale text fields can cause a crash. The work around is to set these values using the sliders. This bug is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96012508

V6.0 ImageWorks - Image Edit

When clearing 16 bit signed image planes in the image editing panel of ImageWorks only the top half of the image is cleared. This problem has been corrected in V6.0.1. The cut function can be used as an alternative method of clearing out the remaining portion of the image plane.
CSR 96020216

V6.0 Imageworks - Vector Editing

Drawing a new line with a large number (>1000) of consecutive vertices causes Imageworks to fail. This occurs because the undo-redo buffer grows very large in order to store the intermediate steps of the operation, so Imageworks runs out of memory and terminates.

The code has been modified to limit the number of intermediate undos for an unfinished new line to ten (10).
CSR 96020617

V6.0 ImageWorks

File coordinates are not reported properly on the control panel if only graphic planes are loaded, and not imageplanes. This problem is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96020619

V6.0 Imageworks Class Editing

On some platforms the "Select at cursor" button may cause ImageWorks to crash. This problem is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96020622

V6.0 ImageWorks MultiSpectral Aggregation

Changing the aggregate class name can cause the Aggregation panel to core dump. To avoid this leave aggregates with default names. This bug is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96020708

V6.0 ImageWorks Subset Panel

A user may notice, while in the subset panel, that values they type into the coordinate textfields are not recognized and accepted. This problem does not occur when the mouse is used in the thumbnail region to set the textfields. The problem is fixed in V6.0.1, and a fix for some platforms is available on the ftp site.
CSR 96021209

V6.0 Imageworks Supervised Classification

The panel for performing classification to disk in ImageWorks Multispectral will show at most 21 channels off the database. This limit has been removed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96021327

V6.0 ImageWorks on Windows 95

On Windows 95, IPC communication between ImageWorks and Pace programs will not work unless TCP/IP protocol is installed. If a person is on a network, then this is normally installed. If not, then the following steps are required.

Step 1: From the Control Panel, select the network applet.

Step 2: Select the Add button, this displays a panel. From the panel select Adapter and select the Add button.

Step 3: Find Microsoft in the Manufacture list and select it. This should display the Dial up driver Adapter selection.

Step 4: Select the Dial up driver from the Adapter selection. Select Ok.

Step 5: Now select Protocal then select Add button.

Step 6: Find Microsoft in the Manufacture list and select it. This should display the Protocols list.

Step 7: Select TCP/IP and select Ok.

Finally and OK. This restarts the machine. Things should be configured. This problem will persist in V6.0.1.
CSR 96021510

V6.0 NUMREAD for Windows 3.1/95/NT

Program fails for input files with long lines with the following error message:

ERR-IO-27 formatted record or format edit desriptor is too large for record size E610 Execution terminated

As a workaround the V5.3 NUMREAD program can be used. The problem is fixed in the V6.0.1 release.
CSR 96021601

V6.0 Xpace in Sun Cmdtool

When Xpace is run in a sun cmdtool it doesn't always put the command tool in vt100 mode. This can result in PACE program status reports that don't clear the screen, as well as other problems. The work around is to run Xpace from an xterm instead of a cmdtool.
CSR 96022007

V6.0 GDB - NTF Format

There are problems when reading some NTF files with programs that use the GDB library (such as FIMPORT, and ImageWorks). The bug appears as an error 34 (File header read error) when attempting to read the files. The problem is fixed in V6.0.1. There is no workaround.
CSR 96022104

V6.0 Works Programs

There is a font selection problem on some IBM AIX systems causing a symbol/special font to be used instead of the proper latin fonts. This causes works applications to display symbols instead of the proper text.

As a temporary workaround, enter the following line in the existing or new .Xdefaults file in the local directory:``*fontList: fixed''. This problem has been fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96022206

V6.0 ImageWorks Filter (Sun/Sparc Solaris 2.4 - Open Window 3.4)

On Sun/Sparc running Solaris 2.4 (Open Window 3.4), when bringing up the Filter window from the Tools menu, ImageWorks causes the Open Window manager to terminate which in turns automatically logout the user.

This problem has been fixed in V6.0.1. You can get a fix off our FTP site under the pcisun/pcisol directory.
CSR 96022301

V6.0 ImageWorks for Windows 3.1

Only one copy of ImageWorks can run on a MS Windows 3.1 system. There is no work around, though the problem does not exist on Windows 95 or Windows NT. This should be corrected in V6.0.1.
CSR 96022308

V6.0 ImageWorks

If ImageWorks is terminated with a full resolution window open the application may core dump. This corrected in V6.0.1. To avoid this problem close any full resolution windows before terminating the application.
CSR 96022312

V6.0 SMODEL, SORTHO and SRORTHO

V6.0 version does not support the METRE unit. This problem has been fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96022603

V6.0 GDB Intergraph Raster

Type 28 Intergraph raster files (uncompressed RGB) are not supported. This problem is fixed for V6.0.1. Tiled Intergraph raster files are also unsupported, but this limitation will not be resolved in V6.0.1.
CSR 96022804

V6.0 ImageWorks

When vector layers (segments) are loaded into ImageWorks they consume a large amount of memory, often significantly more than they require on disk, and noticably more than the same vector layer required before V6.0. In V6.0.1 a CompactVectors preference has been introduced to allow the user to make a tradeoff between display speed and memory use.
CSR 96022901

V6.0 V6V5VEC Documentation

The documentation for the FLDNME parameter is missing from the V6V5VEC documentation. The FLDNME parameter specifies the database field name to be used to assign a value to the attribute field of the V5 vector format. Fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96022903

V6.0 IVI

When IVI is used to load a 16 bit or 32 bit image channel to the display that is of a constant value (for example all zeros) there is a floating point error while scaling. On some systems this is fatal. Fixed for V6.0.1. This doesn't happen for eight bit channels, or channels with more than one pixel value.
CSR 96030104

V6.0 ImageWorks Windows 3.1/Windows 95

For a small image file, the load graphics dialog sometimes does not display a newly created graphics segment in the load graphics dialog. The solution is to restart ImageWorks.
CSR 96030427

V6.0 GDB - 16 bit LGSOWG CDROMs

When reading 16bit LGSOWG CDROM data with FIMPORT or ImageWorks all values greater than 255 are truncated to 255. This problem may be avoided by using the LINK program, and FIMPORT on the resulting PCIDSK header file when importing 16 bit data. This problem is solved in V6.0.1.
CSR 96030619

V6.0 FLY! (Windows NT)

Rendered image does not increase in size if rendering window is enlarged. Add the option -nobitblt to the end of the command line in the FLY! properties.
CSR 96030713

V6.0 GDB - CCOGIF Import

The import of CCOGIF vector files can cause applications to crash, or produce incorrect results. There is no work around, but this is fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96030723

V6.0 GDB (RadarSat CDROM Data)

When reading some CDROMs in LGSOWG (CEOS) format the image has a vertical strip of improper data. This is due to an improper computation of the offset to the first pixel of data. The CDSAR program can be used as a work around. Fixed in V6.0.1.
CSR 96031001