[daip] crashed command line parser

[Frank Briggs]

Thanks!  (another useful addition to docs would be a short table with
the mapping of standard file-name prefixes onto their purpose
UVD -> UV data
SGN -> Save/Get file
etc
(And also a easy to find reminder of how to translate suffixes into
user numbers.)

many thanks,
Frank


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Frank Briggs writes:
> 
>  > A graduate student here logged out of X-windows while
>  > AIPS was still running (by clicking the Logout button)... when
>  > he came back to work again, he found that his AIPS environment is
>  > corrupted.  All commands are greeted by "AIPS 1: SYMBOL?"
>  > 
>  > for example:
>  > >free
>  > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       FREE
>  > >mcat
>  > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       MCAT
>  > >help
>  > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       HELP
>  > 
>  > I believe I have seen this before (years ago), but I don't remember how to
>  > fix it. Searching the AIPS documentation hasn't brought any joy.
> 
> I have got to add this to the FAQ!
> 
> The user's LASTEXIT SAVE/GET file has been corrupted.  I have added
> code to aips (31DEC04) to try to detect some of this - maybe I can do
> a better job on that.  In the mean time - the LASTEXIT file is in the
> first data area and is named
> 
> SGDuuu001.uuu\;
> 
> If you delete this file, then the program will load a new vocabulary
> and all will be well.   uuu is the user number in extended HEX (base
> 36).
> 
> Eric Greisen
>