[daip] help with TV display in new aips installation

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Apr 8 13:32:45 EDT 2004


Chris Taylor writes:
 > Sorry, I guess I left out the context of my problem in my las 
 > message.  I had been having problems with getting a TV display to 
 > open, and you suggested that somewhere the name of my computer 
 > (which is lt-taylorc) was too long and was getting truncated.  So 
 > you had me set it up as if it were a laptop, in order to work around the
 > too-long name issue. I'll take a look at the loopback you 
 > mention below and see if that resolves my problem.
 > 

Yes

It seems unable to talk to 

localhost:0

and to

lt-taylor:0

which should be exactly equivalent.

Note 

aips tv=local

does not use internet sockets and may be all you need for local
operation.

Eric Greisen




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