[daip] Re: a short question about AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

Tingdong Chen writes:

 >  Sorry to bother you again, but did you ever met such problem that aips
 > does not work for only one user ID, while works good for all others? 
 > 
 >  There is no difference during login, no error messages, after login, the
 > 'bad' ID doesn't accept any task I give it, for example:
 > 
 > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       UC
 > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       INP
 > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       EXIT
 > 
 >  This happens after I recompiled the files as you told me for APSIZE
 > stuff.  I guess it's not that problem, it's like the EXE files not in the
 > right place, or what.....

I suspect that the LASTEXIT SAVE/GET file for this user number has
been corrupted.  In the first data area there will be files

     SGDuuunnn.uuu;

where uuu is the user number in extended hex and nnn is a sequence
number.  nnn = 0 is the index file and nnn=1 and up are memory files
which should all be 562176 bytes long.  I would be that nnn=1 is the
LASTEXIT file - simply delete it and start aips again with that
number.

ERic Greisen