<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Regarding OBIT and AIPS: BDFLIST and BDF2AIPS<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Ticket ID: 17215</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">URL: <a href="https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/17215">https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/17215</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Name: Juhi Tiwari</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Email address: <a href="mailto:j_aquarian_t@yahoo.co.in">j_aquarian_t@yahoo.co.in</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Creator: User</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Department: AIPS Data Reduction</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Type: Issue</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Status: Open</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Priority: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">SLA: NRAO E2E</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Template group: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Created: 26 October 2020 03:42 PM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated: 27 October 2020 09:32 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Reply due: 29 October 2020 09:32 AM (2d 0h 0m)</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Resolution due: 23 July 2023 12:00 AM (998d 14h 27m)</div>
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I got the following output after running the commands.<br />
Within AIPS..<br />
>TYPE VERSIONAIPS 2: ' '>VERSION=AIPS 2: STACK LIMITS>HELP XXXAIPS 2: TEXT FOR XXX UNAVAILABLEAIPS 2: SYNTAX!>HELP BDFLISTAIPS 2: TEXT FOR BDFLIST UNAVAILABLEAIPS 2: SYNTAX!<br />
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Outside AIPS..<br />
juhi64@juhi:~$ cd AIPS/juhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ source LOGIN.SH juhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ $CDTSTAIPS_VERSION=/home/juhi64/AIPS/31DEC20juhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ juhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ cd $HLPFILbash: cd: /home/juhi64/AIPS/31DEC20/HELP: No such file or directoryjuhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ ls31DEC20 AIPSPATH.SH HOSTS.LIST OFM SETUNAME TVALTAIPSASSN.CSH DA00 HOSTS.SH PRDEVS.SH START_AIPS TVDEVS.SHAIPSASSN.SH DATA install.pl PRINT START_QMNGRAIPS.BOOT FITS LOGIN.CSH RUN START_TPSERVERSAIPSPATH.CSH HOSTS.CSH LOGIN.SH SETNAME START_TVSERVERSjuhi64@juhi:~/AIPS$ <br />
Looks like the help files do not exist. How should I proceed?<br />
Juhi <br />
On Tuesday, 27 October, 2020, 12:49:47 am IST, Eric Greisen wrote: <br />
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VERSION is an adverb to INPUTS, GO, HELP etc. Enter TYPE VERSION to see if it has some contents. Then type VERSION=''<br />
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If I say HELP XXX I get the error message you see (saying XXX) because it does not exist. But I am confused by your reply.<br />
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Typing task = 'bdflist' cannot in any ordinary way produce the message TEXT FOR ..., ':')<br />
TYPE = PNAME(I+1:I+2)<br />
C Form wild card file name<br />
C specification.<br />
IF (NCH.GT.0) THEN<br />
WCNAME = MNAME(1:NCH) // '*'<br />
ELSE<br />
WCNAME = '*'<br />
END IF<br />
WLEN = NCH + 1<br />
C Create complete file spec (ZDIR<br />
C will append proper extension)<br />
CALL ZDIR (TYPE, VERSON, WCNAME, FILSPC, IERR)<br />
C Find all the matches (IEXT = 0<br />
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I suspect that VERSION is set but I cannot make this message appear for any real task. The code uses your VERSION value first and then the version (TST, NEW, OLD) used to start the aips. That way it always should find something. If dealing with the version adverbs does not help, exit aips.<br />
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cd $AIPS_ROOT<br />
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, ':')<br />
TYPE = PNAME(I+1:I+2)<br />
C Form wild card file name<br />
C specification.<br />
IF (NCH.GT.0) THEN<br />
WCNAME = MNAME(1:NCH) // '*'<br />
ELSE<br />
WCNAME = '*'<br />
END IF<br />
WLEN = NCH + 1<br />
C Create complete file spec (ZDIR<br />
C will append proper extension)<br />
CALL ZDIR (TYPE, VERSON, WCNAME, FILSPC, IERR)<br />
C Find all the matches (IEXT = 0<br />
source LOGIN.CSH (or . LOGIN.SH for bask shells)<br />
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$CDTST<br />
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cd $HLPFIL<br />
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ls<br />
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This should confirm that the help files are actually there. Try aips over again.<br />
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Eric Greisen<br />
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Ticket Details<br />
Ticket ID: 17215<br />
Department: AIPS Data Reduction<br />
Type: Issue<br />
Status: Open<br />
Priority: Default<br />
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