[ADMB Users] problems with an old model in new version of ADMB

[Tom Wainwright]

Dear ADMB friends,

I'm trying to update an older ADMB model, and am having some problems getting it 
to run under the latest version.

OLD VERSION:
	$ ./BaySAM -?
	 AD Model Builder version 4.5.2 copyright (c) 1993 2000 Otter Research Ltd

NEW VERSION:
	$ ../BaySAM -?
  	AD Model Builder version 9.0.x
	Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Regents of the University of California

(New version ADMB is a fresh install from admb-9.1-linux-gcc4.4-64bit.zip on a 
Linux x64 [Fedora 11] system with gcc 4.4.1.  Running 'make all' from the 
top-level admb directory runs to completion with only a couple errors, but these 
don't seem to relate to my problem.)

THE PROBLEM:

The old version of the code still runs fine on my system, but when I build and 
run the model in the new version of ADMB, I get two errors:

FIRST ERROR:

Output starts with an error:
"Error trying to open data input file /home/twain/tmp/admbtest/baysam/baysam.dat"

The file path should end in "/BaySAM/BaySAM.dat".  I see in the source code for 
model7.cpp (line 124) that the model name is converted to all lower case, which 
didn't used to happen.  This isn't a big problem here, because I can work around 
it using the '-ind' option, and the model works without that empty file anyway.

SECOND ERROR:

However, after running the estimation, the output ends with a second terminal error:
  "Error in dvar_matrix write"

(This appears where "Start of REPORT_SECTION" appeared in the old version's 
output.)  I suspect this may also be a file path problem, but I can't track it down.

Does anyone have suggestions?  I've attached the full output from the run.

Thanks!
	Tom Wainwright

-- 
Tom Wainwright
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Newport, Oregon
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