[daip] forwarded message from Eric Greisen

[Eric Greisen]

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From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu>
To: Alan Marscher <marscher at bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [daip] Possible to reduce size of HI table?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:22:27 -0600

Alan Marscher writes:

 > Some of our VLBA images have extremely long history tables that
 > cause long load times when we make movies of sequences of images.
 > Is there a way to reduce the size of the HI table so that it
 > only contains what is necessary to process the image. I.e., we'd
 > like to delete all the records about the various AIPS tasks that
 > were run to get to the image. I couldn't find any obvious way to
 > do this in the FITTP explain file or in the list of verbs.
 > 

There are several history related verbs:
      HINOTE
      HITEXT
      STALIN
which you could have found by saying apropo history.
      HITEXT, STALIN everything, edit with emacs, HINOTE
will let you select what you want if a selective STALIN is not
enough.

Eric

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