[daip] aips SAVE files

Eric Greisen egreisen at NRAO.EDU
Mon Dec 3 11:35:17 EST 2001


Shami Chatterjee writes:

 > Due to the increasing clutter of files, I'm using multiple aips user IDs
 > on my system. To preserve the many "standard" inputs I use, I'd like to
 > be able to copy SAVE files between user IDs (from 0ZA to 0RS, say).
 > 
 > I tried something like
 > 
 > cp -p SGD0ZA002.0ZA\; SGD0RS002.0RS\;
 > 
 > but aips ("SGIN") does not recognise the new save file. On the other
 > hand, creating a new save file gives me an "Overwriting existing file"
 > warning, so I did have the right file location...
 > 
 > Is there any way to do this correctly, or is it simply impossible?

I have added the pseudoverb USAVE to the system which allows a user to
SAVE to another user number.

Eric



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