[daip] AIPS gripes

[Eric Greisen]

Ketan Desai writes:
 > 
 > Sorry, I am unable to send gripes using my home machine:
 > [my version of AIPS is 31DEC00 downloaded to tape on 02JUN00.
 > 
 > 1) SPLAT apparently has two ways to calibrate the weights
 >    [DOCAL=2, APARM(4)=1]

      SPLIT does too - they are OR'ed

 > 
 > 2)for normal aips installs, #crtlines should be defaulted to zero
?

      I just changed ZDCHIN so that this will happen in new 31DEC01
installations.

 > 
 > 3) secondary AP size should be defaulted to take advantage of whatever was
 >   set in PAPC.INC - which should be discussed in the install doc - which it
 >   is not - to my recollection.

      I put this in ZDCHIN also but it is read from disk.  If the disk
says 0 then the size COMLNK'd from the include is substituted.  The
disk value is used only if 0 < disk_value < PKPWD2 in PAPC.INC.

 > 
 > 4) why do I keep blowing temp C ? I am using a mess of procedures but I have 
 > lots of memory - is there some place where I can change the declared size of 
 > something
 > so that I can use much more memory for AIPS.EXE memory [array K sounds 
 > familiar]

       CLRTEMP verb in procs - the blowing temp C comes from
significant usage of strings, substrings, etc.

 > 
 > 5) is it possible there is a [perish the thought!] memory leak in KRING?
 >   [nothing firm on this yet...]


       More than 50 allocations of memory will cause a halt in ZMEMRY
- one can stop in that routine in debug and see where the usage is
coming from - tables are kept for this very reason.

Eric