<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Eric,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Could you please see below for a problem with VLANT? I contacted Michael</div><div>and he suggested that I'd get in touch with you. It seems to work</div><div>for him, but not from where we are. Also, it worked back in December</div><div>on the same dataset and with exactly the same inputs we're using now.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for looking into this.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Elias</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Michael Rupen <<a href="mailto:mrupen@aoc.nrao.edu">mrupen@aoc.nrao.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3 March 2008 18:22:38 GMT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Elias Brinks <<a href="mailto:E.Brinks@herts.ac.uk">E.Brinks@herts.ac.uk</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Vicas Dana <<a href="mailto:dana.vicas@gmail.com">dana.vicas@gmail.com</a>>, Michael Rupen <<a href="mailto:mrupen@aoc.nrao.edu">mrupen@aoc.nrao.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: VLANT problems</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>Hi Elias,<br><br><blockquote type="cite">- Dana tried to run it on recent LT data and gets:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: Task VLANT (release of 31DEC07) begins<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: TFETCH: wget OF DATA FILE FAILED AFTER wget<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: Trying curl instead<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: TFETCH: curl OF DATA FILE FAILED<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: ERROR 2 OPENING FILE FOR YEAR 2007<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">uhppc5> VLANT2: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">she spotted your gripe to daip about this. What's the scoop? Why doesn't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it work anymore (it used to!).<br></blockquote><br><br>This is a problem with the file on the Web site -- Eric fixed this, but maybe it recurred. Can you try this again and send me your inputs, so I can<br>check from here? Currently it's working for me, for 2005, 2007, and 2008<br>data...<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">- from which data onwards does VLANT work and what should we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">do for older data? Go to the BL correction tables ourselves and use<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">good old CLCOR?<br></blockquote><br><br>VLANT should work for *everything*. Worth checking for really old data I suppose, but basically it's as good as the old CLCOR method.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br> Michael<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>