[daip] FILLM and VLA archived data

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 10 10:38:26 EDT 2005


Yoshiaki Hagiwara writes:

 > just now, VLA archived data have been uploaded via ftp and 
 > I tried to load them to a local disk in my computer using FILLM or FITLD.
 > But, both of them failed... 
 > 
 > The error message and FILLM inputs are show below.
 > MY AIPS in my PC was released at dec03, and so ist should work, i guess.
 > 
 > AIPS 1: INFILE     'HOME:AH736_1                                    '
 > AIPS 1:                                    Non-blank: disk file name
 > AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
 > AIPS 1:                                    Also applies to ON-LINE!
 > localh> FILLM1: Opening HOME:AH736_11
 > localh> FILLM1: ZTPOPN: DISK DEVICE = HOME:AH736_11 NOT FOUND
 > localh> FILLM1: FLDKIO: ERROR   2 OPENING FILE

The help file explains that the file number is appended to the file
name.  This means that HOME:AH736_1 is changed to HOME:AH736_11 when
NFILES is 0.  Change INFILE to 'HOME:AH736_' and all should be well.

Eric Greisen




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