[daip] AIPS: adverb problem in APCAL

[Jim Ulvestad]

Hi Emmanuel,

In case nobody else answered you and forgot to copy to daip, try
 >run newparms   and then >compress

Jim

Emmanuel Momjian wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problem with a "missing adverb" situation in APCAL: in 
> AIPS I type
> >task 'apcal'
> or
> >tget 'apcal'
> after AIPS lists several adverbs, it reports:
>
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       TRECVR
>
> I do "compress"
> >compress
> >
>
> However, after "compress", when I type
> >inp apcal
> I get the same message of the missing adverb:
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       TRECVR
>
> I also tried "RESTORE 0", but the problem stayed:
> >RESTORE 0
> >task 'apcal'
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       TRECVR
>
>
> When I exit aips, restart it and type
> >tget apcal
>
> I get:
> AIPS 1: CHARACTER    8 BAD IN SUM.HLP
> AIPS 1: BAD CHARACTERS IN ADVERB INNAME
> AIPS 1: CHARACTER?
>
> I am not sure if the missing adverb problem and the above message are 
> related, but when I re-call the UV file I am interested in and type:
> >getn 107
> AIPS 1: Got(1)   disk= 2  user=2270   type=UV   BC132B_PASS2.NEW.1
> > inp apcal
>
> I end up again with the missing adverb problem:
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       TRECVR
>
> Would you please let me know how to resolve this problem.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Emmanuel
>
>
>
>
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