[daip] AIPS error message

[Eric Greisen]

Deidre A. Hunter writes:
 > Whenever I try to do anything with a task, such "inp", I get the following
 > error message
 > 
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
 > AIPS 1: ZDIR: DISKEXT
 > AIPS 1: ZTXMAT ERROR =      2
 > 
 > I can run verbs (such as mcat, getn, tvinit, tvlod, curv). But,
 > for example, "task imlod", inp, help imlod, and go produce the error.
 > 
 > What does this error message mean?
 > 
 > Thank you.
 > 
 > Deidre Hunter
 > 
 > 
 > History:
 > I have a SUN Ultra 1 running SunOS5.8. I had been running 15APR97.
 > It was working fine, and then one day it gave these error messages.
 > I took this as motivation to wipe out the old aips and install
 > 31DEC01 from scratch, which I just finished doing. But, the error
 > message remains. Maybe irrelevant: A few weeks before my AIPS broke, 
 > there was some rearrangement of the domain behind our firewall. 
 > The internal network names changed. I changed .rhosts and TPHOSTS
 > to reflect this.
 > _______________________________________________

INPUTS, HELP, GO etc all have themselves INPUTS.  When this problem
occurs you can't look at them so it is not suprising that folks ask
about this problem.  The VERSION adverb has been set to 'DISKEXT' by
someone.  Set it as VERSION = ' ' and all should be well.

The upgrade to the more modern AIPS was worth the trouble I can assure
you even though fixing this minor hicup was not an adequate reason.

Eric Greisen