[daip] Re: tvflg

[Eric Greisen]

Lisa Young writes:
 > Hello Eric.  I am experiencing some trouble with
 > TVFLG that I hope you may be able to straighten out.
 > 
 > I am running aips on a dual-processor 750 MHz PC which
 > is currently doing I think one version behind the latest
 > Mandrake linux.  I upgraded from 31DEC99 to 31DEC02 on 
 > March 30 and I have not been doing the MNJ.  AIPS seems to be
 > running fine (although i have not tried every task, of course)
 > except for TVFLG.  When I start up TVFLG with a reasonable
 > set of parameters, it gets down to this stage of creating
 > the temporary file and then it just hangs.  It pegs the CPU
 > up at 100% and then just stays there- nothing ever happens,
 > but it keeps chewing up CPU as if in an infinite loop of some
 > sort.  It has to be Ctrl-C'ed.

    You have ignored the strenuous admonitions not to use the 2.96
compilers suppled with Mandrke and RedHat.  See the aips web page.
You have used a compiler that does not correctly compile either aips
or aips++ - ask your husband who is well aware of this.

 > 
 > I ran TVFLG successfully before the update to 31DEC02
 > but this is the first time I tried it after the update.
 > Do you have ideas?  I don't think it's a disk problem, since
 > writing to another disk doesn't change anything.  I still have
 > 31DEC99 on disk and have been trying confusedly to run that
 > version but somehow I always get 31DEC02.  (i.e. "aips old"
 > doesn't seem to produce the desired effect, even though 
 > AIPSPATH.CSH says that OLD is 31DEC99).
 > 
 > thanks
 > Lisa Young
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > prairi> TVFLG1: Task TVFLG  (release of 31DEC02) begins
 > prairi> TVFLG1: Begin finding a list of times to enter the grid
 > prairi> TVFLG1: Found   115 time intervals to grid, so
 > prairi> TVFLG1: begin gridding the data to a temporary TVFLGR file
 > prairi> TVFLG1: Create 20020104    .TVFLGR.   1 (MA)  on disk  1  cno 
 > 170
 > -- 
 > Dr. Lisa Young, Asst. Prof. Physics
 > New Mexico Tech
 > Socorro, NM 87801
 > lyoung at physics.nmt.edu 
 > phone 505-835-5104 fax 505-835-5707
 >