Hi,
the attached script files demonstrate a bug. Please run the 
bugtest_driver.inp script which includes the other script 
port_bugtest.inp. The example uses the built-in example dataset abdata.
The point is that the top-level series "e" which is passed as a pointer 
arg to the function (factcoint_test) gets a spurious and more or less 
arbitrary description string, sometimes including non-printable 
characters. Actually sometimes the correct description happens; in that 
case please just run the script again. To trigger the bug it seems 
necessary to have an enclosing loop.
In itself it's not a big deal, but since apparently chunks of memory end 
up where they do not belong, maybe some related unknown bugs exist and 
may be fixed by getting this straight.
This is a fairly recent snapshot.
thanks
sven