Hi rovira74,

Are you running the mkdfa.pl script in Windows, Cygwin, or Linux?  Which version?  I tried it on Fedora FC6, and it seems to work OK.

It sounds like you might have extra characters in either your sample.grammar and sample.voca. 

It might also be a problem with using a Windows text file on Unix/Cygwin or vice versa (i.e. extra carriage returns or line feeds).  The "dos2unix" or "unix2dos" Linux/Cygwin commands can clear this up.

Ken 

thanks ken.

Used  dos2unix command on the files and got expected result. 

how do you use the dos2unix and/or command? also, if I use windows (vista) which one of the two should I use?

 -ethan

Hi ethan,

>how do you use the dos2unix and/or command?

From a Cygwin console on Windows, you should be able to use the "man" command to get documentation on any Cygwin command, like this:

 $ man dos2unix

$ man unix2dos 

(use the "q" to exit the man help page)

>if I use windows (vista) which one of the two should I use?

I can' t remember off-hand... I don't have access to a Windows machine right now -  try them both and see which works  :)

Ken 

> I tried. it says there is no manual entry for either of them.

use the "cd" command to change directory to where your files are located, then execute the commands as follows:

• dos2unix *.*
• unix2dos *.*

My version of Cygwin does not have a "man" page entries for these commands either.  Google brings up the following web pages:

• unix2dos
• dos2unix

>if I use windows (vista) which one of the two should I use?

see this post.

Ken 

Hi,

I am running the mkdfa.pl script in cygwin, and not been able to get either .dfa or .dict file generated.

It gives this error message:

$ ./mkdfa.pl ticket

ticket.grammar has 4 rules

ticket.voca has 9 categories and 18 words

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Error: cannot open "ticket.dfa.tmp"

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no .dfa or .dict file generated

I have already used the dos2unix command but it didn't fix the problem.

I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me how to fix this. Thanks.

>Error: cannot open "ticket.dfa.tmp"

are you using the newest version of Julius?