[daip] destroyed catalog file

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Apr 6 13:09:32 EDT 2004


Mairi Brookes writes:

 > My supervisor has destroyed the catalog file on one of my disks, but all
 > the other files remain. I'm told there is a way to reconstruct the catalog
 > file, but I can't find out how, can you tell me?
 > 

Outside aips:

cd $AIPS_ROOT
source LOGIN.CSH   (or . LOGIN.SH for bash)
$CDTST

RUN RECAT

and answer the questions - it rebuilds the CA file from the data
header files, on the disk and users number you tell it.

Eric Greisen




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