[daip] Trouble with AIPS command line

[Eric Greisen]

Eric Tittley writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > The command line for AIPS is not accepting commands.

       Can you send me the output lines that precede the lines below?
It has failed to  read in a POPS vocabulary and those lines may shed
some light on why.

 > 
 > Example session:
 > AIPS 2:                          31DEC01 AIPS:
 > AIPS 2:      Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Associated Universities, Inc.
 > AIPS 2:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
 > AIPS 2:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
 > AIPS 2: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
 > AIPS 2: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
 > AIPS 2: Previous session command-line history *not* recovered.
 > AIPS 2: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
 > >help readline
 > AIPS 2: SYMBOL?       HELP
 > >HELP READLINE
 > AIPS 2: SYMBOL?       HELP
 > >exit
 > AIPS 2: SYMBOL?       EXIT
 > >EXIT
 > AIPS 2: SYMBOL?       EXIT
 > >Exit
 > AIPS 2: SYMBOL?       EXIT
 > >[^C]AIPS 2: ZABORS: signal 2 received
 > AIPS 2: ABORT!
 > 
 > If I change ZSTARTUP in $AIPSROOT/31DEC01/SYSTEM/UNIX/AIPSEXEC
 > to ZSTRTB (the batch-file tool for AIPS), the command line
 > interface accepts the usual commands. But of course is not
 > fully functional.  That demonstrates that it isn't a problem
 > with the readline library or such.
 > 
 > I've installed the 31DEC01 version of AIPS (Jun 13).
 > 
 > Is this a problem with a known solution, or have I managed to 
 > mess things up in a unique way?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Eric Tittley
 > 
 > -- 
 > Dr. Eric Tittley   Post Doctoral Research Associate
 > Joint Center for Astrophysics                  UMBC
 > 
 >