[daip] AIPS question: deleting files

[Eric Greisen]

Olaf Wucknitz writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > this may be a very stupid (and thus hopefully easy) question.
 > In several runfiles, I have to delete disk files (e.g. log files,
 > plots in PS files etc.) before calling the run file. Is there a way to
 > delete standard disk files or to call general operating system
 > commands from within AIPS, especially from run files?
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Olaf Wucknitz
 > -- 
 > University of Potsdam, Astrophysics           olaf at astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de

I have last night added a verb SYSTEM to 31DEC04 AIPS to allow this.
It calls the OS with the command
        SYSCOM > SYSOUT
where you specify the above 2 adverbs.

Thanks,

Eric Greisen