[daip] AIPS can't see my data

[Simon Strasser]

Hi,

I hope that you can help me with the following problem:
We are in the transition of switching from a Slackware to a Redhat 
system. I recently loaded some new data (with fillm) onto my computer, 
which is running the Redhat (Fedora Core 2) operating system. Running 
fillm worked without errors, and I can see that tables (e.g running 
listr with optype='scan'). However if I try any task that attempts to 
access the actual data (e.g. listr with optype='matx'), I get the 
following error message: LISTR1: NO DATA FOUND. Other tasks that try to 
access the data have similar problems (e.g. uvplt doesn't find any points 
to plot).
If I run aips from a computer on the "old" (slackware) system, and setting 
da=lapis (lapis is my machine running on the Redhat), then aips sees my 
data no problem. The data is therefore definitely there, and can be read 
by AIPS from the old system. If I run aips from a different computer on 
the new system (also setting da=lapis) then I have the same problem as 
with running on my own computer: no data found.
We did another test to check whether the problem might lie with files 
that are created for each user upon first logging into AIPS:
  - We took some data from from a computer on the old system,  and copied 
it into my AIPS data area. This data belongs to a different user number 
that has never previoulsy logged in from my computer. We also 
copied the files that are created by AIPS for this user from the old 
system. When we attempted to look at this data the result was the same as 
before: on my computer I can't see it, but logging in remotely, there's 
no problem.

Is this a problem you have encountered before? Do you have suggestions 
about how we might be able to solve this? Let me know if you need more 
information.

Thank you very much for your help!
Simon Strasser

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