[daip] Re: .dadevs

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Nov 29 12:17:13 EST 2004


Michael Lindqvist writes:
 > I just noticed something peculilar. We normally use private .dadevs at the observatory.
 > When I started AIPS today I could not get it going: 
 > ====
 > START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
 >   (Using private file /home/michael/.dadevs for DADEVS.PL)
 > DADEVS.PL error - no disks selected at all
 > This is a FATAL error and nothing in AIPS will work.
 > ===
 > I have not changed my .dadevs-file. However, it seems that it
 > has to be (at least) two spaces between the + and the directory.
 > When I changed it to two spaces it worked again.
 > 

The intended grammar is to require the two spaces.  I am not enough of
an expert at shell scripts to be sure if DADEVS.SH requires the two
spaces, certainly DADEVS.PL does.

Eric Greisen




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