[daip] Re: LWPLA after AIPS midnight job

[Eric Greisen]

Hiroshi IMAI writes:
 > Dear Eric,

    Please send messages to daip at nrao.edu.  Should I be away (I was
for 3 weeks just recently), someone else may be able to help you.

 > Today, I did midnight job by running do_daily.[our host] and POPSGN.
 > I recommended to type "COMPRESS" and "RUN NEWPARAMETE" after
 > the midnight job as well.

    I assume you ran the POPSGN on both Linux and Solaris systems.

    The COMPRESS is for each user to obtain any new adverbs.  The RUN
NEWPARMS also works but is not necessary.

 > One of our yours using Sun Solaris OS, however, found two problems
 > in AIPS LWPLA describle as follows. LWPLA is now working well
 > in LINUX. These do matter only in Solaris. According to the log of
 > the midnight job, these problems have not yet been covered in the
 > recent updating of the task.

     We do not use Solaris much any more so I will check a little more
after sending this reply, but one of the two below is user error
caused by the change in adverbs escaping the user's notice.

 > 1) The first problem has been present at least for a few months at JIVE
 > and results in the bounding boxes of postscript files written by LWPLA
 > being incorrect. This causes the labels to be partially or completely
 > obscured.

     DPARM(6) specifies the paper size.  Is it possible that this is
not set to 4 for your A4 paper?

 > 
 > 2) Upon the running of the midnight job on April 7 2003 a new problem
 > surfaced, again with the Suns only. When LWPLA is run it fails to write a
 > postscript file, reporting the following error:
 > 
 > juw14.> LWPLA1: Task LWPLA  (release of 31DEC03) begins
 > juw14.> LWPLA1: No clipping or scaling applied to grey scale pixels
 > juw14.> LWPLA1: ZFULLN: LOGICAL NAME REQUIRED, FILE='OFMFIL:    ?
 > juw14.> LWPLA1: Appears to have ended successfully
 > juw14.> LWPLA1: juw14        31DEC03 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0

The adverb OFMFILE has been set to some value - perhaps due to a TGET
LWPLA with a change of adverbs between the previous GO and the TGET.
Set OFMFILE=' ' and this should go away.

Eric Greisen