[daip] curious problem

[Eric Greisen]

Lawrence Rudnick writes:
 > Eric -
 >    I am running AIPS (31DEC02) on my dell laptop, linux, and
 > had a hell of a time (user generic ageing and confusion)
 > getting the compiles to work;  now i need to do another one
 > (tvflg appears to be broken and i want to COMLNK again,
 > and if that doesn't work, recopy the source code and
 > try again)
 >    anyway, when I try to COMLNK, it says "no valid TVFLG..."
 > found, even if I get right down to the directory where it is,
 > permissions fine, etc. etc.
 > 
 >    I have a high suspicion that i've screwed up something with
 > the shell.  The default login shell for aips is bash.  What
 > I do after logging in is
 >    csh
 >    source AIPS/LOGIN.CSH
 >    $CDTST
 >    COMLNK TVFLG
 > 
 >    somehow, i solved this before, once in initial installation,
 > and again when i put in my own version of MWFLT.  however,
 > i'm stuck again and brain cells are failing.  any advice
 > would be welcome.  thanks.

Did you change the directory structure or the $SITE name?

The problem is probably in the file $SYSLOCAL/SEARCH0.DAT.  You can
edit that file or just rename it and try the COMLNK over again.

Eric