[daip] CLCAL
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Oct 24 16:57:17 EDT 2003
Michael Bietenholz writes:
> 1) You should put at least a few warnings into the .HLP file since a
> couple of important adverbs changed between 01May2003 and 18July2003,
> ie. running CLCAL with INTERP='BOX', INTPARM=1, now produces a
> different result than it used to. Frequent users like me may well
> set the adverbs without looking at the HLP file in any detail, since
> we (think we) know them.
The substantial change in the adverbs should have allerted you to
the fact that things changed. It did for most users. the old program
did a bunch of things wrong - I suppose I could have left it anyway.
Many old time users have complained that I fixed it.
>
> 2) I'm not sure that SAMPTYP='BOX' (in the 18July2003) version works -
> I can't get it to produce a CL table any different than if I leave
> SAMPTYP blank, regardless of the setting of BPARM. Should I get a newer
> version than 18July2003?
What is you setting of DOBLANK? If it is > 0, then smoothing is
only used to replace failed solutions.
You realy should run the MNJ once a week or so...
>
> 3) Is there a log somewhere of the changes that are made to 31DEC2003
> for the curious? It would be useful to be able to check what has
> changed since your last version of 31DEC2003.
There are several ways to get at this - CHANGE.DOC in $HIST is the
main documentation. There is even a web tool that will access this
for you.
Eric Greisen
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