[Difx-users] RULE and SETUP section name issue

[Jan Wagner]

Thanks Walter, Mike!

Lol so you too Mike! Yeah the logic is confusing indeed. A blank
name for SETUP, if it doesn't break the parser, would I think be
more intuitive for a setup that should be applied to everything not
covered by any RULE.

Anyway, well, I can see how a special 'default' SETUP might be a
useful feature. And looks like it is actually documented so I
should've just RTFM earlier   (vex2difx wiki: "A setup with the
special name default will be applied to any scans not otherwise
assigned to setups by rule sections")

Btw, I didn't choose the unfortunate name of 'default' myself.

It comes from the Template v2d (*.tv2d) generated by sked(?) and
distributed with VLBA log files etc on the archive server.

Probably there is some good reason for the 'default' in the *.tv2d
as well.

cheers,
Jan

Am 16.05.2018 um 12:54 schrieb Mike Titus:

> Jan,
>
> Just to say that misery loves company - I ran into the same
> problem a couple weeks ago, and it took me a while to figure out
> how to get around it.  I eventually solved it exactly the same way
> you did i.e. re-naming the "SETUP" section to something other than
> "default" and pointing to it in the RULE section.  In the end I
> decided not to report it because I figured it was just me
> mis-interpreting the rules of the RULE section, and it seems
> that's the case given Walter's response.
>
> Given that we both ran into it however, I think the logic is
> confusing and probably should be changed.
>
> Mike
>
>