Great, glad it works!

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Cat Chong wrote:

Dear Anastasia,

Thank you so much for your fast reply. I believe I found the pesky mistake in my dmrirc file.. I omitted a space in the last line set ncpts =5 once I fixed this to  set ncpts = 5 and re-ran the command I no longer get this error message. Thank you very much, Catherine

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From: Anastasia Yendiki ayendiki@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu To: Cat Chong cavecreekcutter@yahoo.com Cc: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula error? set: Variable name must begin with a letter

Hi Cat - Can you please send along your dmrirc file? It's hard to tell without looking at it.

a.y

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Cat Chong wrote:

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Hello Experts:

I am running the first pre-processing step in Tracula and come across the error: set: Variable name must begin with a letter.

Below is an excerpt of the script which seems to be running fine. Did I

make

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a mistake in my dmrirc_single_subject file? Cheers, Catherine

fmris-mac-pro-2:8000_tracula fmri$ trac-all -prep -c $SUBJECTS_DIR/dmrirc_single_subject set: Variable name must begin with a letter. INFO: SUBJECTS_DIR is /8000_tracula/ INFO: Diffusion root is /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out/ Actual FREESURFER_HOME /Applications/freesurfer trac-preproc -c /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out//8001_DTI/scripts/dmrirc.local -log /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out//8001_DTI/scripts/trac-all.log -cmd /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out//8001_DTI/scripts/trac-all.cmd #------------------------------------- /Applications/freesurfer//bin/trac-preproc #------------------------------------- #@# Image corrections Mon Jan 14 09:37:29 MST 2013 mri_convert /8000_tracula//8001_DTI/IM-0006-0001.dcm /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out//8001_DTI/dmri/dwi_orig.nii.gz mri_convert /8000_tracula//8001_DTI/IM-0006-0001.dcm /8000_tracula//8000_tracula_out//8001_DTI/dmri/dwi_orig.nii.gz $Id: mri_convert.c,v 1.179.2.2 2011/05/16 20:53:47 greve Exp $ reading from /8000_tracula//8001_DTI/IM-0006-0001.dcm... Starting DICOMRead2() dcmfile = /8000_tracula//8001_DTI/IM-0006-0001.dcm dcmdir = /8000_tracula//8001_DTI Ref Series No = 6

the script continues to run ok.

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