id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 19 Non-fatal errors are apparently fatal David Loeffler Olly Betts "Running cavern on the top-level {{{all.svx}}} file in the ""sample data"" tarball produces a bunch of errors about malformatted dates: {{{ david@rockhopper:~/survex/loser> ~/bin/cavern all Survex 1.1.16 Copyright � 1990-2011 Olly Betts In file included from surface/allnr41.svx:22, from surf.svx:26, from all.svx:20: surface/sonnausn.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from surface/allnr41.svx:118, from surf.svx:26, from all.svx:20: surface/228ausn.svx:10: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/031/031.svx:15, from caves/caves.svx:7, from all.svx:27: caves/031/elchalt.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/040/040arge.svx:7, from caves/040/040.svx:21, from caves/caves.svx:9, from all.svx:27: caves/040/arge/elefant.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/040/040arge.svx:19, from caves/040/040.svx:21, from caves/caves.svx:9, from all.svx:27: caves/040/arge/e6.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/040/040arge.svx:25, from caves/040/040.svx:21, from caves/caves.svx:9, from all.svx:27: caves/040/arge/niete.svx:9: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:77, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/mark.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:78, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/seiteng.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:87, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/bigchamb.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:92, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/germanrt.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:93, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/e41b.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:95, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/steinsch.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:96, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/megalo.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:97, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/wdr.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:98, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/lampntot.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:101, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/glueck.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:103, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/din.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:106, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/edelmean.svx:8: Invalid month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:107, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/rondos.svx:8: Invalid month In file included from caves/041/041.svx:111, from caves/caves.svx:10, from all.svx:27: caves/041/arge/alice.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/078/078.svx:90, from caves/caves.svx:11, from all.svx:27: caves/078/fetzig.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/078/078.svx:92, from caves/caves.svx:11, from all.svx:27: caves/078/stuttg.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/115/115.svx:23, from caves/caves.svx:15, from all.svx:27: caves/115/nebukad.svx:8: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/144/144.svx:25, from caves/caves.svx:29, from all.svx:27: caves/144/arge/144ein.svx:9: Invalid day of the month In file included from caves/144/144.svx:26, from caves/caves.svx:29, from all.svx:27: caves/144/arge/144horiz.svx:8: Invalid day of the month Removing trailing traverses... Concatenating traverses between nodes... Simplifying network... Solving 2 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 2 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving one equation Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 101 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 7 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 28 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 58 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Solving one equation Solving to find x coordinates... Solving 2 simultaneous equations Solving to find x coordinates... Calculating network... Calculating traverses between nodes... Calculating trailing traverses... Calculating statistics... Survey contains 11442 survey stations, joined by 11492 legs. There are 266 loops. Survey has 216 connected components. Total length of survey legs = 66026.52m (66028.33m adjusted) Total plan length of survey legs = 49308.43m Total vertical length of survey legs = 30114.66m Vertical range = 1085.31m (from sternloch.ent at 1850.00m to 115.115rest.orgasm.1 at 764.69m) North-South range = 4570.79m (from lunge.dreamfudge at 85498.95m to 115.115rest.orgasm.17 at 80928.17m) East-West range = 3321.34m (from raetsel.4 at 38281.23m to 183.lower.1 at 34959.89m) 161 0-nodes. 926 1-nodes. 9194 2-nodes. 1014 3-nodes. 122 4-nodes. 16 5-nodes. 5 6-nodes. 2 7-nodes. 2 8-nodes. CPU time used 0.41s Done. There were 0 warning(s) and 25 non-fatal error(s) - no output files produced. }}} Although it describes the date errors as ""non-fatal"", there's no way to make it output anything! It would be nice to have a switch that forced it to output a 3d file anyway; otherwise in what sense are the errors ""non-fatal""?" defect closed minor 1.2.7 cavern 1.1.16 fixed