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This originates from the fact that  characters are used in pathnames on PC, while they are interpreted as ordinary characters on UNIX.     In fact, POLYFLOW will create the files Outputsres, Outputsrst and Outputsfv  To fix this, you should replace the &#8221;  &#8221; with &#8221; \/ &#8220;.   Most probably, the safest way consists of entering the following command on the UNIX machine: sed &#8216;s\/\/\/\/g&#8217; dat > unix.dat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164709","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fluid-dynamics","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-other","topic-tag-polyflow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"when you run on UNIX a dat file that has been generated with POLYMAN on Windows, it may happen that output files (results) are not found. 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