[daip] Re: question about writing to dvd in AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

It looks as if the writing process is far too complex for aips.  But
the read - try a dvd with fits files only.  Assign a logical (e.g.
MYDVD) to /mnt/cdrom (or whatever it was) and inside aips
       INFILE='MYDVD:filename
and see if that works.  The 1 Gbyte limit can be wroked on with FITAB
for UV files in that they can be written in "pieces" and you can
(should) keep them under 1 Gbyte.  FITLD and UVLOD can read the pieces
without any cat operations.  This does not work for images however but
aips will just exceed 1 Gbyte with its largest (16K*16K * 4 byte)
possible image (neglecting cubes of course...)

Thanks 

Eric Greisen