[daip] Re: AIPS bug with INFILE

[Eric Greisen]

Matt Lister writes:
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > I was wondering if you have come across this bug with 31DEC04 AIPS, I'm
 > running on Red Hat Fedora 2 linux. 
 > 
 > When I run any task that reads from a disk file, I get an error saying
 > it can't find the file, AIPS seems to add a "1" to the end of the
 > filename:, eg. 
 > 
 > infil 'AL634.RAWDATA'
 > go fillm
 > Opening AL634.RAWDATA1
 > FILLM1: ZTPOPN: DISK DEVICE = AL634.RAWDATA1 NOT FOUND
 > FILLM1: FLDKIO: ERROR   2 OPENING FILE
 > 
 > Any ideas on what might be causing this? It gives the same error regardless
 > of the length of the filename, or whether I specify infile using quotes before and
 > after the filename. 

Try reading the help file.  When FILLM reads data from disk file it
reads the files with names = xxxn where n is the "tape" file number.
If NFILES=0 in the adverbs then the first disk file will have n = 1.
You must rename the file to end in 1.

Eric Greisen