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Bugs: dmmakereg

For detailed information and examples of running this tool, refer to the dmmakereg ahelp file.

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Caveats

Bugs

Caveats

ASCII regions always say "physical"

The ASCII regions produced with kernel=ascii will always indicate that the region is in physical coordiates.

Bugs

The append option of dmmakereg does not work when kernel=ascii.  (07 Sep 2006) 

unix% dmmakereg "circle(100,110,20)" file.out append=yes kernel=ascii
# dmmakereg (CIAO): ERROR: Could not create file 'file.out', it exists and
clobber = no.
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