[daip] AIPS: solaris vs. redhat

[Skinner Steve]

  Eric-

  Yes, I should have known to initiate 'setenv'
  in the same window. But, its been quite a while
  since I have used FITTP, so I forgot about this
  procedure.

  I was just talking to our Unix/Linux system folks
  and we are trying to determine if there are any tests
  of AIPS on the Linux server we can do before my new
  Dell Linux PC client arrives (probably in about two weeks.)
  They will probably be done installing AIPS today on
  the Linux server. Is it best to wait until my client arrives
  to try to do any AIPS tests, or is there something we
  could do in the way of preliminary tests before the
  client gets hooked up to the server?

  We have a couple of other folks here who also use AIPS
  and will probably be moving off of Sun Solaris onto
  Dell Linux PCs soon , so I guess I get to be the guinea
  pig for our site.

  regards,
  Steve Skinner





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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Skinner Steve writes:
>
>  >   I just figured out the problem and got
>  >   wrtdisk to work.
>  >
>  >   The key seems to be to 'setenv MYAREA' in the same
>  >   window as AIPS is started in, before starting
>  >   AIPS.
>  >
>
> Of course.  What setenv does is add an environment variable to the
> process making and running the xterm.  Then when that process starts
> aips, the aips child inherits all logicals.  If you create the logical
> in some other window then aips' parent does not have it to give aips
> or if you create it (e.g. with ctrl-z) after aips is started then
> aips' inheriatnce is already fixed and will not change even though the
> parent now has more to give.
>
> Thanks for letting me know - I live in some terror of changes in OS's
> to which we do not have easy access.
>
> Eric Greisen
>