[daip] strange tape problem

[Toney Minter]

Eric,
  There is a pattern to the files.  I have put the files in the
directory ftp://ftp.gb.nrao.edu/ovlbi/out/tminter
The FCUBE file should be written first followed by the ROTMES file in
order to duplicate what I get.  Note: these are large files!

  I haven't made progress with EDITA and EDITR.  I did notice once
that IMAGR would hang up when DOTV=1.  However, IBLED and TVFLG work
just fine.
Toney

Eric Greisen writes:
 > 
 > I tried your tape thing using a DAT from mu Linux machine.  I do not
 > have a tape drive so it had to be remote, but the file locking TPD..
 > is then done on both the local Linux and the remote Solaris machine.
 > It works even on my (fake) ROTMES image.  Maybe there is something
 > about the tape drive directly mounted on Linux or something about the
 > contents of the image.
 > 
 > Did you ever resolve the problems with EDITR or EDITA that you were
 > having?
 > 
 > Eric
 > 
Eric Greisen writes:
 > Looking at the code, if something about the image causes core to be
 > overwritten in 1 of several ways, then the TAPIO subroutine would
 > loose track of the fact that the tape was open and might try to open
 > it a second time.  This could lead to the file locking problem.  I do
 > need the image or some way to debug - will FITTP succeed in writing it
 > to disk?  If that fails, try FITAB.
 > 
 > Thanks, Eric
 >