[daip] Re: recovery from loss of aips catalog

[Eric Greisen]

Geoffrey Bower writes:
 > Eric,
 > 
 > In the process of setting up an aips acct on a linux machine, it appears that
 > catalog on solaris machines was disturbed.  Probably this was due to
 > including the same disks for each system in .dadevs, inadvertently.  
 > All the files are still there but the catalog doesn't appear to exist
 > anymore.  How can we rebuild the catalog using the existing files?
 > 

Yes - there is a stand-alone program in AIPS called RECAT

cd $AIPS_ROOT
source LOGIN.CSH    (or . LOGIN.SH for bash)
RUN RECAT

and answer the questions.  It uses the header files CBD* to reinstate
the CA file.

Eric Greisen