[daip] Loading an archive file into AIPS with FILLM

[Thomas Pannuti]

To Whom It May Concern:

I have a quick question to ask about how archived files can
be loaded into AIPS with the FILLM task. The name of the archived
file which I want to load into AIPS is AB628_4 and I have FILLM
set up with the following inputs:

>inp fillm
AIPS 1: FILLM     Task to read a VLA archive tape
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INTAPE        1                    Tape drive number
AIPS 1: INFILE     'AB628_4                                 '
AIPS 1:                                    Non-blank: disk file name
AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
AIPS 1:                                    Also applies to ON-LINE!
AIPS 1: BAND       '    '                  Freq. band (4,P,L,C,X,U,K,Q)
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code
AIPS 1: VLAOBS     '      '                VLA obs. pgm. name ('AZ99')
AIPS 1: VLAMODE    '  '                    VLA obs. mode ('  '=any)
AIPS 1: REFDATE    '        '              Reference date. 'yyyymmdd'
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Timerange selected
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    First spectral channel
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest spectral channel
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    'NGC4395     '          Output UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Output UV file disk unit #.
AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP      1                    1 (T) => compressed data
AIPS 1: DOALL        -1                    1 (T) => write all data.
AIPS 1: DOCONCAT     -1                    1 (T) => append data to old
AIPS 1:                                    files
AIPS 1: NCOUNT        0                    Number of files to read
AIPS 1: DOWEIGHT      1                    Use nominal sensitivity to
AIPS 1:                                    scale weights?
AIPS 1:                                    = 10, use Memo 108 weights
AIPS 1: DOACOR       -1                    Load autocorrelation data?
AIPS 1: CPARM      *all 0                  User options.
AIPS 1:                                    1 => Avg. time (seconds)
AIPS 1:                                    2 => bitmap    (see help)
AIPS 1:                                         = 16 for planets & Sun
AIPS 1:                                    3 => Max. OK IF status
AIPS 1:                                         <=3 => 3
AIPS 1:                                    4 => Control dropping of
AIPS 1:                                         shadowed data
AIPS 1:                                         < 0 => no shadow check
AIPS 1:                                         0 => 25 m limit
AIPS 1:                                         > 0 => Shadow limit is
AIPS 1:                                               CPARM(4) in meters
AIPS 1:                                    5 = channel code (see HELP)
AIPS 1:                                    6 => Subarray number-see HELP
AIPS 1:                                    7 => FQ entry tolerance (kHz)
AIPS 1:                                         (see HELP)
AIPS 1:                                    8 => CL table time incr. min
AIPS 1:                                    9 => TY table time incr. min
AIPS 1:                                    10=> Calibrator avg. time
AIPS 1: DPARM      *all 0                  Selection by Frequency
AIPS 1:                                    1+2 => A Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    3+4 => B Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    5+6 => C Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    7+8 => D Frequency (Hz)
AIPS 1:                                    9 => tolerance for A&C
AIPS 1:                                    10 => tolerance for B&D
AIPS 1: BPARM      *all 0                  Opacity and Gain curve
AIPS 1:                                    control (see help)
AIPS 1: IN2FILE    '                                                '
AIPS 1:                                    Antenna gains file

Unfortunately I receive error messages when I try to run this task:

FILLM1: Task FILLM  (release of 31DEC04) begins
FILLM1: UV data will be written in compressed format
FILLM1: Shadow flag limit =  2.500E+01 meters.
FILLM1: Opacity correction in CL table weighted average of weather and
FILLM1:    season.  Weight for weather = 0.50
FILLM1: Gain curve correction in CL table read from file,
FILLM1:    with variation as function of antenna and band.
FILLM1: Opening AB628_41
FILLM1: ZTPOPN: DISK DEVICE = AB628_41 NOT FOUND
FILLM1: FLDKIO: ERROR   2 OPENING FILE
FILLM1: Error      8 opening VLA archive data disk file.
FILLM1: FLMUV: FLMDAT error  8
FILLM1: Read         0 visibilities from  0 files
FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
FILLM1: sscsci62     31DEC04 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       1

I'm not sure why AIPS cannot load this file: do I have all of the
inputs set correctly? If you have any suggestions about anything that
I should correct, please let me know.

Thanks for your time! Sincerely, Tom Pannuti