[daip] Re: AIPS Startup Error

[Eric Greisen]

Pat Van Buskirk writes:
 > When starting Aips on aniken, the following error occurs. This is the 
 > Solaris machine - was it caused by setting up the laptop? Thanks!
 > 
 > START_AIPS: Enter your choice, or the word QUIT [default is 4]: 1
 > START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the ps printer, room 352 (ps/dup)
 > START_AIPS:  - system name ps/dup, AIPS type PS
 > 
 > START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
 > DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.008
 >    (Using global default file /home/AIPS/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for DADEVS.PL)
 >     Disk 1 (1) is /DATA/ANIKEN_1
 >     Disk 2 (2) is /DATA/ANIKEN_3
 > 
 > Tape assignments:
 >     Tape 1 is Exabyte 8500 (dual density) on ANIKEN
 >     Tape 2 is real time FILLM (1) on ANIKEN
 >     Tape 3 is real time FILLM (2) on ANIKEN
 >     Tape 4 is real time FILLM (3) on ANIKEN
 >     Tape 5 is real time FILLM (4) on ANIKEN
 >     Tape 6 is REMOTE
 >     Tape 7 is REMOTE
 > 
 > /opt/local/bin/aips: test: argument expected

Solaris is very strange and did not handle normal shell grammar.  I
think it is now fixed.

Eric