[daip] Re: FILLM

[Jim Ulvestad]

Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
> Jim Ulvestad writes:
>  > Hi Eric,
>  >
>  > Sorry I missed the meeting--had to give a talk to
>  > Finley's teachers group.  Was the FILLM problem
>  > something that happened in one of Bryan's
>  > changes, or in getting it to load from disk,
>  > or has it just been lurking all along?
> 
> So far as I can tell it has been there all along.  It tested the file
> count for an exact match but had the routine that looks for the next
> desired data able to keep advancing past file marks.  Maybe I had
> better test the disk one to see what it does.  Adnacing to the next
> file is there nowhere near so simple.
> 
>  > Thanks for finding it so fast.
> 
> Please double check my fix.

Looks like it read one extra file, I assume based on where
it gets to NCOUNT in some loop:

....

coyote> FILLM1: Found N3690           :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/
17:12:20.0
coyote> FILLM1: Found 1128+594        :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/
17:20:50.0
coyote> FILLM1: Found 1331+305        :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/
17:25:20.0
coyote> FILLM1: Read    403123 visibilities from  3 files
coyote> FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
coyote> FILLM1: coyote       31DEC02 TST: Cpu=       7.5  Real=     582

This was with NCOUNT=2; I double-checked.

AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INTAPE        4                    Tape drive number
AIPS 1: INFILE     '                                                '
AIPS 1:                                    Non-blank: disk file name
AIPS 1: NFILES        5                    Number of files to advance
AIPS 1: BAND       '    '                  Freq. band (4,P,L,C,X,U,K,Q)
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code
AIPS 1: VLAOBS     'AN095 '                VLA obs. pgm. name ('AZ99')
AIPS 1: VLAMODE    '  '                    VLA obs. mode ('  '=any)
AIPS 1: REFDATE    '20001024'              Reference date. 'yyyymmdd'
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Timerange selected
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    First spectral channel
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest spectral channel
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    '20001024    '          Output UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Output UV file disk unit #.
AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP      1                    1 (T) => compressed data
AIPS 1: DOALL        -1                    1 (T) => write all data.
AIPS 1: DOCONCAT     -1                    1 (T) => append data to old
AIPS 1:                                    files
AIPS 1: NCOUNT        2                    Number of files to read
AIPS 1: DOWEIGHT     -1                    Use nominal sensitivity to
AIPS 1:                                    scale weights?
AIPS 1: DOACOR       -1                    Load autocorrelation data?
AIPS 1: CPARM      *all 0                  User options.
AIPS 1:                                    1 => Avg. time (seconds)
AIPS 1:                                    2 => bitmap    (see help)
AIPS 1:                                         = 16 for planets & Sun
AIPS 1:                                    3 => Max. OK IF status
AIPS 1:                                         <=3 => 3
AIPS 1:                                    4 => Control dropping of
AIPS 1:                                         shadowed data
AIPS 1:                                         < 0 => no shadow check
AIPS 1:                                         0 => 25 m limit
AIPS 1:                                         > 0 => Shadow limit is
AIPS 1:                                               CPARM(4) in meters
AIPS 1:                                    5 = channel code (see HELP)
AIPS 1:                                    6 => Subarray number-see HELP
AIPS 1:                                    7 => FQ entry tolerance (kHz)
AIPS 1:                                         (see HELP)
AIPS 1:                                    8 => CL table time incr. min
AIPS 1:                                    9 => TY table time incr. min
AIPS 1:                                    10=> Calibrator avg. time
AIPS 1: DPARM      *all 0                  Selection by Frequency
AIPS 1:                                    1+2 => A Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    3+4 => B Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    5+6 => C Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    7+8 => D Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    9 => tolerance for A&C
AIPS 1:                                    10 => tolerance for B&D
AIPS 1: BPARM        -1        *rest 0     Opacity and Gain curve
AIPS 1:                                    control (see help)
AIPS 1: IN2FILE    '                                                '
AIPS 1:                                    Antenna gains file