[daip] Re: extd a history file

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Nov 24 16:41:54 EST 2003


Bob Becker writes:
 > hello, is there anyway to circumvent the requested yes/no when running extd on 1000's of
 > files to remove the history file. even a completely empty history file occupies 6%
 > of the total disk space for the FIRST images. for our webserver these history files
 > serve no purpose.

Write a proc called YES which is a no-op.

Then write a proc that clears extensions files , e.g.

for i=cno1 to cno2
getn(i)
inext 'hi'; extd
yes
inext '??'; extd etc etc
end

I rather like the query for HI and CL vers 1 to help amateurs...

ERic



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