[daip] Troubleshooting: FITLD

[Eric Greisen]

Volker Heesen writes:

 > I have a problem with loading FITS-Data-Files. AIPS detects the file 
 > AH367.891118.C properly on my hard-drive-disk. But it complains via MSGSRV 
 > like this:
 > 
 > JULIA > FITLD1: Found MULTI    observed on 18-NOV-1989
 > JULIA > FITLD1: TAPIO: RECORD LENGTH    576 INCONSISTENT WITH BLOCK SIZE  2880
 > JULIA > FITLD1: UVFDAT: ERROR READING TAPE. IERR=    10
 > JULIA > FITLD1: ERROR     10 RETURNED FROM UVFDAT

This says that there is something wrong with your file.  I suspect
that if you do a ls -l on the file you will see that it is 
        N*2880 + 576 
where N is an integer bytes long.  It is required to be an integer
number of 2880 bytes.  What is the source of this file (where did you
get it)?

Eric Greisen