[daip] OTFIN

Eric Greisen egreisen at NRAO.EDU
Thu Mar 30 14:40:53 EST 2000


Patrick P. Murphy writes:
 > 
 > I decided to update to version 31DEC99 for reading MAC data with the
 > 12m. However, when I run aips in this new version, the same error
 > occurs. What might be happen?
 > 
 > The message error (in english!) is:
 > 
 > ========================================================================
 > 
 > milong> OTFIN1: Task OTFIN  (release of 15APR99) begins
 > milong> OTFIN1: OTFINF: RECORD, DIR LENGTHS********** NOT 512 64
 > milong> OTFIN1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > milong> OTFIN1: milonga      15APR99 OLD: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0
 > 
 > ========================================================================
 > 

      You may have loaded 31DEC99, but you ran 15APR99 (version OLD)
in the messages above.  Versions of AIPS prior to 15OCT99 had a bug in
the attempt to read OTF data on byte-swapped computers (e.g. LInux
PCs, DEC alphas).  This bug gave the above message.

It should work in 31DEC99.

Eric



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