[daip] Re: AIPS installation

[Eric Greisen]

James R Seddon writes:
 > I have recently installed AIPS on my computer but am having trouble 
 > getting my data to show up in the UV catalogue.
 > 
 > My data consists of 2 FITS files about NGC5033 from the D & C arrays 
 > at VLA.  Could you please tell me where to put my data so that it 
 > will show up in ucat.  It is currently in my "1st data area" but I 
 > cannot get it from within the program.

        Try reading some of the CookBook.  In each of the early
chapters it describes what to do with a FITS file.  You place them
anywhere you want and then run UVLOD or FITLD to load them into AIPS.
We do not process FITS files directly - only through readers and
writers.  The CookBook is available in $AIPSPUBL as files COOK*.PS or
from the www via a table of contents called
          http://www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/cook.html

  Also, MESSGSERV and TEKSERV 
 > wont initiate because "directory etc/services/ doesnt exist" - I dont 
 > know what I did wrong but it is pretty buggered.

      The directory /etc exists, the file in it named services exists
- or you are not running Unix.  Whether the list of system services
comes from this file or via "yellow pages" or some other site-wide
server depends on your site.  See a system manager; root privilege is
required to edit this file.

Eric Greisen