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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks Adam,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am working with some code that Willem hacked together for DSPSR using Mark5Access.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Trying to get it to use our single dish data recorded in vdif format from the DBBC/Fila10G/Jive5ab.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Paul’s code doesn’t read our vdif
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">☹</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Stuart Weston<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Mobile: 021 713062<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Adam Deller <adeller@astro.swin.edu.au>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 20 March 2020 1:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stuart Weston <stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Phillips, Chris (CASS, Marsfield) <Chris.Phillips@csiro.au>; difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Difx-users] Question : What library/code is DiFX using to read VDIF files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Stuart,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">mpifxcorr uses mark5access to unpack VDIF samples. The vdifio library that is also included with DiFX is quite limited - apart from what Chris already noted, I believe it doesn't support legacy VDIF. Without any disrespect to anyone who
worked on it (including me :) ) it was really a fairly quick hack to support some simple utilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, dspsr I think based some of its VDIF support code on vdifio. Paul Demorest first made a copy of vdifio onto git - whether it ultimately became an external mirror of the vdifio hosted on SVN in DiFX or if it has branched off (and had
functionality added) I'm actually not sure. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know dspsr is capable of processing the VDIF-formatted data produced by the VLA tied array system, so I'm pretty sure that unpacking is already available in dspsr somewhere! I'd suggest checking with Paul Demorest, since he is definitely
the key person for VDIF in dspsr.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 10:32, Stuart Weston via Difx-users <<a href="mailto:difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu" target="_blank">difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">>> If your question is a licensing one<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Nope its not that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So I take it DiFX uses Mark5access, yes ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Mobile: 021 713062<br>
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Skype: stuart.d.weston<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz" target="_blank">stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz</a><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 20 March 2020 11:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stuart Weston <<a href="mailto:stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz" target="_blank">stuart.weston@aut.ac.nz</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu" target="_blank">difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Difx-users] Question : What library/code is DiFX using to read VDIF files</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi Stuart<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Just wondering if we can use the DiFX VDIF library/code instead ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">It is not clear what your question actually is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The initial VDIFIO library I wrote had *no* sampling unpacking routines. Others may had added some, I am not sure. Without that the answer would be essentially be no. VDIFIO is
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">If your question is a licensing one, then yes as all of DFIX is GPLv3 now. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
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