<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Walter,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for you comments. I still keep the trunk and old 2.4 versions in our computing system.</div><div class="">I just made a test for this new branch and hopefully my information is helpful to improve the recent release.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Walter Brisken <<a href="mailto:wbrisken@lbo.us" class="">wbrisken@lbo.us</a>> 於 2017年6月4日 上午4:50 寫道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Hi Lupin (and all users),</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Please keep in mind that although we have branched DiFX-2.5, it is not yet released. Please use at your own risk only until then! We're hoping to announce the release in the next month or so.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">-W</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Sat, 3 Jun 2017, Lupin Lin wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">To whom will concern my problem,<br class=""><br class="">Since DiFX-2.5 was released, I am now testing the functions with this new version.<br class="">I have successfully installed the DiFX-2.5, and I did not see any significant error in installation.<br class=""><br class="">When I performed the vex2difx with the trunk version, the task can smoothly be done.<br class="">¡X¡X<br class="">lupin@node01:/data/lupin/test-7000> vex2difx --force -v test.7000.v2d<br class="">Note: The vex file has no exper_nominal_start parameter defined in the EXPER section. Making assumptions...<br class="">Note: The vex file has no exper_nominal_stop parameter defined in the EXPER section. Making assumptions...<br class="">1 job groups created:<br class="">Group: scans 124-0542 - 124-0542 = mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">Job test_7000<br class="">mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">duty cycle = 1<br class="">scans = 124-0542<br class="">Antenna list: G1 G2<br class="">size = 0 bytes<br class=""><br class="">1 job(s) created.<br class="">¡X¡X<br class=""><br class="">But if I switched to DiFX-2.5, I gained an error message and no related calc and input files can be obtained.<br class="">¡X¡X<br class="">lupin@node02:/data/lupin/test-7000> vex2difx --force -v -v test.7000.v2d<br class="">Checking test.7000.v2d for proper line termination<br class="">Checking /data/lupin/test-7000/test.vex.obs for proper line termination<br class="">Note: The vex file has no exper_nominal_start parameter defined in the EXPER section. Making assumptions...<br class="">Note: The vex file has no exper_nominal_stop parameter defined in the EXPER section. Making assumptions...<br class="">Vex:<br class="">1 sources:<br class="">Source M87<br class="">name=M87<br class="">ra=3.27609<br class="">dec=0.216266<br class="">1 scans:<br class="">Scan 124-0542<br class="">timeRange=mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">mode=MINE<br class="">source=M87<br class="">size=0 bytes<br class="">G1 range=mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">G2 range=mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">G1 enable=1<br class="">G2 enable=1<br class="">2 antennas:<br class="">Antenna G1<br class="">x=1.50069e+06 dx/dt=0<br class="">y=-1.19174e+06 dy/dt=0<br class="">z=6.06641e+06 dz/dt=0<br class="">posEpoch=0<br class="">axisType=azel<br class="">axisOffset=0<br class="">tcalFrequency=-1<br class="">Clock(57877: -0, -0, 57877)<br class="">Antenna G2<br class="">x=1.50069e+06 dx/dt=0<br class="">y=-1.19174e+06 dy/dt=0<br class="">z=6.06641e+06 dz/dt=0<br class="">posEpoch=0<br class="">axisType=azel<br class="">axisOffset=0<br class="">tcalFrequency=-1<br class="">Clock(57877: -0, -0, 57877)<br class="">1 modes:<br class="">Mode MINE<br class="">Subband[0]=[2.3e+11 Hz, 2.048e+09 Hz, sb=U, pol=R]<br class="">Setup[G1]<br class=""> Setup:<br class=""> Channel: [name=Ch01 BBC=BBC01 IF=XX s=0 -> r=0 t=0 tones=]<br class=""> IF: IF_XR [name=XX, SSLO=2.3e+11, sb=U, pol=R, phaseCalInterval=0 MHz]<br class=""> Datastream: [format=VDIF, nBit=2, nRecordChan=1, dataFrameSize=8224, nThread=0, singleThread=1, sampRate=4.096e+09]<br class="">Setup[G2]<br class=""> Setup:<br class=""> Channel: [name=Ch01 BBC=BBC01 IF=XX s=0 -> r=0 t=0 tones=]<br class=""> IF: IF_XR [name=XX, SSLO=2.3e+11, sb=U, pol=R, phaseCalInterval=0 MHz]<br class=""> Datastream: [format=VDIF, nBit=2, nRecordChan=1, dataFrameSize=8224, nThread=0, singleThread=1, sampRate=4.096e+09]<br class="">5 eops:<br class=""> EOP(57877, 35, 0, 0, 0)<br class=""> EOP(57878, 35, 0, 0, 0)<br class=""> EOP(57879, 35, 0, 0, 0)<br class=""> EOP(57880, 35, 0, 0, 0)<br class=""> EOP(57881, 35, 0, 0, 0)<br class=""><br class=""># correlation parameters<br class="">vex=/data/lupin/test-7000/test.vex.obs<br class="">mode=normal<br class="">mjdStart=57877.2375<br class="">mjdStop=57877.23755787<br class="">minSubarray=2<br class="">visBufferLength=80<br class="">maxGap=180 # seconds<br class="">maxLength=7200 # seconds<br class="">minLength=0.5 # seconds<br class="">maxSize=2000 # MB<br class="">singleScan=0<br class="">singleSetup=1<br class="">mediaSplit=1<br class="">jobSeries=test<br class="">startSeries=7000<br class="">dataBufferFactor=16<br class="">nDataSegments=8<br class="">maxReadSize=25000000 # Bytes<br class="">minReadSize=4000000 # Bytes<br class="">outputFormat=0<br class="">antennas=G1,G2<br class="">baselines=*-*<br class=""><br class="">ANTENNA G1<br class="">{<br class="">X=-90000000000 Y=-90000000000 Z=-90000000000<br class="">axisOffset=-999<br class="">polSwap=0<br class="">phaseCalInt=0<br class="">tcalFreq=-1<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">ANTENNA G2<br class="">{<br class="">X=-90000000000 Y=-90000000000 Z=-90000000000<br class="">axisOffset=-999<br class="">polSwap=0<br class="">phaseCalInt=0<br class="">tcalFreq=-1<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">SETUP default<br class="">{<br class="">tInt=0.5<br class="">FFTSpecRes=0.5<br class="">outputSpecRes=0.5<br class="">doPolar=1<br class="">doAuto=1<br class="">subintNS=0<br class="">fringeRotOrder=1<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">RULE default<br class="">{<br class="">correlator setup=default<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">1 job groups created:<br class="">Group: scans 124-0542 - 124-0542 = mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">Job test_7000<br class="">mjd(57877.2375,57877.2375579)<br class="">duty cycle = 1<br class="">scans = 124-0542<br class="">Antenna list: G1 G2<br class="">size = 0 bytes<br class="">developer error: writeDifxCalc: D->job->calcFile is null<br class=""><br class="">1 job(s) created.<br class="">¡X¡X<br class=""><br class="">Can someone indicate the way to fix the problem?<br class=""><br class="">Sincerely,<br class="">--<br class="">Lupin Chun-Che Lin<br class="">Supporting Scientist of GLT (GreenLand Telescope) project<br class="">in Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,<br class="">14F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building (Rm: 1405),<br class="">National Taiwan University.<br class="">No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.<br class="">Tel: +886-2-2366-5464<br class="">Fax: +886-2-2367-7849<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; 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