[daip] ANTUSE

[Eric Greisen]

Martin Hardcastle writes:

 > Several users here have been having trouble with the recent (?)
 > addition of the ANTUSE adverb to CALIB in 31DEC99 -- they obediently
 > go off and RUN NEWPARMS but then grind to a halt when that doesn't
 > work. Obviously there's a simple fix, but shouldn't ANTUSE be in the
 > standard NEWPARMS script?

    When the adverb ANTUSE was created 1999-05-11, its author
added it correctly to POPSDAT but forgot to add it to NEWPARMS.
I corrected this oversight on 2000-04-20.  It is clear then that you
have not run a "midnight job" since then.  I recommend that you set up
the capability to run mnj's and run them once in a while.

    The reason that we did not notice this oversight sooner is the
fact that NEWPARMS is now not the usual way in which to get new
adverbs.  The verb COMPRESS is used instead.  If the local AIPS
Manager has run POPSGN when he/she installed AIPS and whenever the MNJ
tells him/her to repeat the process, then all users will get the
latest POPS structure for POPS while losing wasted POPS space and
retaining all user adverb values, procedures, etc.  I believe the
message about unknown adverb mentions COMPRESS as well as the older
NEWPARMS.

Eric Greisen