[daip] AIPS

Andrew A. West west at toast.astro.washington.edu
Thu Nov 7 15:55:41 EST 2002


I have a weird error when I start AIPS which I have included below.  ANy
idea about what it might be?  

It is the part with NEWEST: command not found and
: unary operator expected.


THanks, Andrew

west at d-128-95-99-180 ~]$ aips tv=local
START_AIPS: Will use or start first available Unix Socket based TV

You have a choice of 6 printers.  These are:

    No. [ type  ] Description
-------------------------------------------------------------
     1. [PS-CMYK] goddess trans B356
     2. [PS-CMYK] goddess dup B356
     3. [     PS] ink B351
     4. [     PS] alwc321 C321
     5. [PS-CMYK] goddess B356
     6. [     PS] jeep B356
-------------------------------------------------------------

START_AIPS: Enter your choice, or the word QUIT [default is 1]: 3
START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the ink B351
START_AIPS:  - system name ink, AIPS type PS

START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
  (Using global default file /net/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST)
   Disk 1 (1) is /net/aips/DATA/REDROCKET_1
   Disk 2 (2) is /mnt/aips-data

Tape assignments:
   Tape 1 is REMOTE
   Tape 2 is REMOTE

START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called d-128-95-99-180
START_AIPS:  - but have chosen to run the TV locally on D-128-95-99-180
TVDEVS.SH: Starting TV servers on d-128-95-99-180 asynchronously
TVDEVS.SH:  - WITH Unix Sockets as requested...
TVDEVS.SH: Starting TPMON daemons on D-128-95-99-180 asynchronously...
Starting up 31DEC02 AIPS with normal priority
Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC02) at priority =   0
AIPS 1: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   2
AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   2
AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
?UNIXSERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSRV1 on d-128-95-99-180
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: NEWEST: command not found
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: [: =: unary operator expected
TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Unix (local) domain
UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS1 on d-128-95-99-180, DISPLAY :0
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: NEWEST: command not found
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: [: =: unary operator expected
XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
XAS: Using screen width height 1014 668, max grey level 255
XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV1 on d-128-95-99-180, display :0
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: NEWEST: command not found
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: [: =: unary operator expected
UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV1 on d-128-95-99-180, display :0
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: NEWEST: command not found
/net/aips/31DEC02/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: [: =: unary operator expected
1
Password:
AIPS 1:                          31DEC02 AIPS:
AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Associated Universities, Inc.
AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit


Andrew A. West
Department of Astronomy
University of Washington



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