[daip] FITLD with NCOUNT>1

[Cormac Reynolds]

hi,

I've been having a problem with using FITLD in the latest AIPS version (the
midnight job last ran on 20 November 2005). I'm trying to load multiple fits
files from disk using the NCOUNT parameter to do them all automatically and
concatenating with DOCONCAT=1. The first FITS file loads fine, but the second
fails with the following error message:

jop15 > FITLD2: Found 20701            at   0/16:37:14 src #  14
jop15 > FITLD2: Found 178              at   0/00:00:00 src #   1
jop15 > FITLD2: UV table spanned time:   0/10:30:19 -  0/16:43:04
jop15 > FITLD2: Rejected   8063 records based on weights
jop15 > FITLD2:    31080 vis. written
jop15 > FITLD2: TABKEY: UNKNOWN KEYWORD DATA TYPE, CODE =   0
jop15 > FITLD2: TABKEY: ERROR OCCURRED DURING TABLE KEYWORD ACCESS, OPCODE=WRIT
jop15 > FITLD2: CTINI: ERROR  19 INITIALIZING CALC TABLE FOR WRIT
jop15 > FITLD2: CTUPDT: DOING INIT ERROR   19
jop15 > FITLD2: WARNING: data found out of time order
jop15 > FITLD2: **************************************************
jop15 > FITLD2:  Subarray or data out of order condition found.
jop15 > FITLD2:  NX/CL tables deleted.
jop15 > FITLD2:  Use UVSRT or MSORT to sort data into TB order.
jop15 > FITLD2:  Use USUBA to set up subarrays.
jop15 > FITLD2:  Rerun INDXR using CPARM(3) and (4)
jop15 > FITLD2: **************************************************
jop15 > FITLD2: ---------- FILE   1 LOADED ----------
jop15 > FITLD2: Data with weight <  0.20 will be permanently flagged
jop15 > FITLD2: ZOPEN: LUN = 29 ALREADY OPENED IN FTAB
jop15 > FITLD2: TABINI: REQUESTED AN FILE   1 DOES NOT EXIST
jop15 > FITLD2: ANTINI: ERROR   2 INITIALIZING ANTENNA TABLE FOR READ
jop15 > FITLD2: MAPANT: ERROR   2 OPENING AN TABLE #    1
jop15 > FITLD2: ZOPEN: LUN = 29 ALREADY OPENED IN FTAB
jop15 > FITLD2: ZCREAT: FILE DA02:CTD002001.0T6; ALREADY EXISTS
jop15 > FITLD2: ZOPEN: LUN = 29 ALREADY OPENED IN FTAB
jop15 > FITLD2: TABINI: ERROR  1 OPENING FILE CT NO.   1
jop15 > FITLD2: CTINI: ERROR   2 INITIALIZING CALC TABLE FOR WRIT
jop15 > FITLD2: CTUPDT: DOING INIT ERROR    2
jop15 > FITLD2: ERROR      2 RETURNED FROM BTRTAB
jop15 > FITLD2: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
jop15 > FITLD2: jop15        31DEC05 TST: Cpu=       8.5  Real=      14


I've tried with several different datasets always with the same result. An
older version of AIPS  (31DEC04 stable) works fine. These are of course data
from the JIVE correlator, which may be the root of the problem. Also, if I run
FITLD twice (with NCOUNT=1, and DOCONCAT=1 and changing the name of the input
FITS file each time) it also seems to work o.k.

thanks,

Cormac.

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