[daip] Help with AIPS

[Jonathan Mines]

Eric and/or Technical Support,

Thank you for your quick reply.  I will try to fix the problem shortly.  
It may be in my best interest to ask you about two additional error 
messages so that all of the problems can be taken care of at once.

1.  When I ran FILLM, at the end I receive the following error message 
(It is not the same as the previous one from running PRTAN.):

FILLM1: Found 0437-187        :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/ 10:25:10.0
FILLM1: Found MU_LEP          :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/ 10:28:30.0
FILLM1: Found 0437-187        :    0 50.000 MHz at IAT   0/ 10:37:10.0
FILLM1: Opening /home/mines/bin/aips/DATA/AB1137_1.xp2
FILLM1: ZTPOPN: DISK DEVICE = /home/mines/bin/aips/DAT NOT FOUND
FILLM1: FLDKIO: ERROR   2 OPENING FILE
FILLM1: MCRECO: ERROR    8 OPENING DISK FILE    2
FILLM1: Read    373495 visibilities from  1 files
FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
FILLM1: phbehar2     31DEC05 TST: Cpu=       3.6  Real=       4



2.  When I attempted to run LISTR, it did not work and I received the following error message:


ERROR  3 ON UNIT TTDEV01         , GETTING HOST/SERVICE BY NAME
 ZMSGOP: ZTTOPN RETURNS ERROR =   1 FOR LUN =   6
LISTR1: ZLPOPN: printer file = /tmp/ZLPOPN.a03695
/home/mines/bin/aips/31DEC05/SYSTEM/UNIX/ZLPCL2: line 204: [: too many arguments
/home/mines/bin/aips/31DEC05/SYSTEM/UNIX/ZLPCL2: line 217: [: =: unary operator expected
/home/mines/bin/aips/31DEC05/SYSTEM/UNIX/ZLPCL2: line 234: [: =: unary operator expected
/home/mines/bin/aips/31DEC05/SYSTEM/UNIX/ZLPCL2: line 241: [: `)' expected, found PREVIEW
LISTR1: Unknown printer type  on the
LISTR1: (ZLPCL2 doesn't know what to do for that type of printer)
ZLPCL2: Success
LISTR1: ZLPCL2: ignoring error 0 from pclose()
LISTR1: a child process will delete /tmp/ZLPOPN.a03695 in 300 seconds
LISTR1: Appears to have ended successfully
LISTR1: phbehar2     31DEC05 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0
AIPS 1: Resumes




Lastly, out of curosity, what is "a child process"?  Thank you for your 
assistance.

Jonathan Mines






Eric Greisen wrote:

>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
>
>  
>