[daip] Help with AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

Jonathan Mines writes:
 > I sent an e-mail to you last week.  I have made some progress since 
 > then, so assuming that you didn't read it yet, feel free to delete it.  
 > However, I have a few new questions.

     daip recieves 100-200 spams a day.  If you are not careful about
the subject matter they will be deleted unexamined.  I cannot find the
previous one, so I assume that is what happened.

 > 
 > 1.  What does the below error message mean?  I have already attempted to 
 > look it up, use the "help" and "explain" commands, etc.  I seemed to be 
 > successful in executing the prtan command, however.
 > 
 >  >go
 > *ERROR  3 ON UNIT TTDEV01         , GETTING HOST/SERVICE BY NAME
 >  ZMSGOP: ZTTOPN RETURNS ERROR =   1 FOR LUN =   6*

    You have not set up the system services for the TV, TEK, and
message server.  Each task will attempt to access the message server
when it starts and, when it fails, will then write its messages to
your xterm.  But when the services are not set up there is this error
that will be reported.  See the AIPS Manager FAQ page or the
installation instructions page from our home web site

              http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips

for instructions about this.

 > 
 > 2.  I received another error message when executing the "fillm" 
 > command.  For future reference where can I obtain more information on 
 > these errors?  They are not in either the AIPS index or glossary.  Thank 
 > you.

Was the FILLM message the same?

We have not set up a list of error messages because they are too
diverse and numerous and some even depend on the host OS rather than
fully on AIPS.  There should be no error messages so we regard all of
them as exceptions.  In general, they are a little easier to interpret
than the one above - although the fault is a failure to set up a
service name.

Eric Greisen