[daip] FILAIP fails

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:11:35 -0500, Ron Wilhelm
   <wilhelmr at southwestern.edu> said: 

> Would someone please help me with this problem.  I am installing the
> 31DEC99 version of AIPS on my Linux box and I have been able to make it
> successfully through INSTEP2 and INSTEP4.  When FILAIP starts up it
> warns that no data directory has been defined, even though I have
> defined a data directory, checked DADEVS.LIST and the path is there.

Is there an empty SPACE file in it?  If not, AIPS won't use it.  If you do
this: 

      cd /wherever/the/data/area/is
      touch SPACE

that should do the trick.

				- Pat