[daip] Weird error messages in AIPS

[Grace Wolf-Chase]

Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> writes:
>Something has gone wrong with your message file - it thinks it is
>bigger than it is.  The best thing to do is exit aips.
>
>cd to your first disk area
>
>ls -laf MSD*
>
>you will see a message file named MSDuuu000.uuu;  where uuu is your
>user number in extended Hex.  Delete that file with rm and start up
>again.
>
>Eric Greisen

Thanks Eric & John -

This worked!

Grace

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