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In the script I include a process ID number that is associated with the CONTROL file. Isn't that supposed to bypass the interaction? The line in the script is: os.system('usr/local/hysplit/trunk/exec/hycs_std '+pid) With pid being the process ID. I have a correlating CONTROL.pid in the working direc...

I am writing a python program that executes Hysplit and when it begins hycs_std I receive this error:

"malformed header from script. Bad Header= HYSPLIT4 - Initialization 201: hysupdate.py"

Have any of you encountered this error before? What exactly does it mean?

I have both of those files already, in .../hysplit/trunk/source

I have run xrun.scr and the only error it had was the version information.
I checked and I do have version2.inc in the source directory.
Is there any way these two problems are linked?

/usr/local/src/Smoke/hysplit/trunk/exec/hycs_std 20150716-121032 HYSPLIT4 - Initialization 20150716-121032 USE: svn info | tail -n3 to fill in these three records with the version information! NOTICE main: using namelist file - SETUP.20150716-121032 At line 315 of file metset.f (unit = 70, file = '...