[daip] Moving user files

[Eric Greisen]

Roderick Johnstone writes:

 > How do we select uuu? Is it just the userid in Hex?

    Extended hex (base 36).  We use the function EHEX to take a
decimal number and tell us the Ehex value and REHEX to go the other
way.  These are both aips verbs and scripts in $SYSLOCAL if you are
not inside aips

 > 
 > 2) Another user also wishes to switch to private catalogues because we 
 > think that using the public catalogues is what is causing the problems 
 > we see with vlarun. In that case there are around 2300 catalogue entries 
 > (ie around 23000 files) over 20 different user ids. We obviously need 
 > some automatic way to do this conversion.
 > 
 > Can you advise please.

I think I had better write a program - to read the CAD000000.; file
and write the CAD000000.uuu; ones while renaming the files.  This
should be amusing to do and I will start now.

Eric Greisen