[daip] Re: AIPS problem

[Eric Greisen]

Miguel de Val Borro writes:
 > Dear Eric,
 > 
 > One of our users had a electricity interruption while he was using
 > AIPS at home, now when he runs AIPS and types his ID number all the
 > commands are not recognized:
 > 
 > >mc
 > IPS 1: SYMBOL?       MC
 > >kleenex
 > AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       KLEENEX
 > 
 > >From his account when using another ID number, AIPS works fine. How to
 > solve this problem?

The problem is that the save/get file called LASTEXIT has been
damaged.  I have attempted to put things in the code to detect and
correct this, but they came well into the 31DEC04 development.

The thing to do is to cd to the first data area and do an ls -l 


primate<246>$ ll SG*.004\;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    28672 Jan 13 14:59 SGD004000.004;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips       562176 Jan 13 14:58 SGD004001.004;

where 004 is my user number in extended hex.  The larger of the two is
the one at fault.  Simply rm it.  There may be more files, e.g. 

-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        28672 Jan 10 11:49 SGD010000.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips       562176 Jan 10 11:49 SGD010001.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr   562176 Jan 16  2003 SGD010002.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr   562176 Jan 16  2003 SGD010003.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr   562176 Jan 16  2003 SGD010004.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr   562176 Jan 16  2003 SGD010005.010;

but LASTEXIT is almost always the SGDnnn001.nnn\;  one.

Eric Greisen