[daip] AIPS TV device

[Eric Greisen]

Miguel de Val Borro writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Eric Greisen wrote:
 > > You must keep the data areas for different architectures separate.  It
 > > is possible for a solaris machine to destroy a user's data files that
 > > were created by Linux and vice versa.  That is why we use separate
 > > site names for the two byte orders.
 > 
 > Thanks for pointing that out.
 > 
 > Is it possible to use AIPS 31DEC03 to handle data files that were
 > created with AIPS 15OCT98? (both versions running on Solaris)
 > It may be useful to access the old files with the new
 > AIPS installation.

15OCT98 is as far back as one can go.  There may be some minor
incompatibilities but 31DEC03 should be able to handle all old files
to that release. The 15OCT98 code cannot handle some of the more
recent things of course.

Eric Greisen