ERROR("premature end of file encountered ");

Hi!

I am facing somewhat odd behaviour of Singular. I have written few procedures in a single file with the code to be executed at the end. Say the name of the file is "myfile.sing". When I say
> < "myfile.sing";
It raises the error
. premature end of file encountered while reading the string
.

And then keeps on waiting for the input. Initially I thought this one to be the problem of string/ double quotes `"` mismatchings. So I commented the complete procedure part. And executed the just `print("Hello"); messages after restaring the singular. It gave me the same error.

Then after restarting the computer, I tried the original file again, it worked for the 1st run. but the same problem from 2nd run onwords.

Can somebody help me in this regard?

Vinay

P.S.
I have tried this on both shell + emacs.



email: vinay_wagh@yahoo.com
Posted in old Singular Forum on: 2003-04-18 08:13:56+02

It's hard to tell what's going on without seeing the actual file.
Can you post it (or send it to me)? I'm fairly new at this as
well, but I haven't seen the problem you describe. If I create
a file containing the single line
print("Hello");
and then read it with
< "file";
I see
Hello
printed.

What system (and OS version) are you using? When reporting
problems, it helps to know what you are running on, what
version of Singular, and a little more data about the problem.

Regards,

Justin

PS: the text handling of this interface does *not* wrap lines, so
you have to do it yourself. If you don't, you see long lines that
stretch forever out to the right...


email: justin@mac.com
Posted in old Singular Forum on: 2003-04-21 00:32:59+02

HI!
I am using Singular-2-0-3 on win98. Anyway but now I have
another problem that the problem I had described earlier
has suddenly stopped its strange behaviour. It behaves nicely now.

I think it had something to do with the memory. Anyay I 'll
try to monitor in case the problem repeates.

Regards
Vinay

email: vinay_wagh@yahoo.com
Posted in old Singular Forum on: 2003-04-21 10:38:38+02