[daip] problem with aips

[Eric Greisen]

Robert F Willson writes:
 > Eric,
 > 
 >   Thanks for the information, but in which file do I change the adverb VERSION 
 > to VERSION= ' ' ? 

    Simply type it when you are in aips.  The bad value is coming from
the LASTEXIT file so be sure to exit cleanly to save a good value.

 > 
 > I see in the file START_AIPS that there are several places where the adverb 
 > VERSION appears, for example VERSION = TST, VERSION = OLD and VERSION = NEW. Do 
 > I replace TST with ' ' in START_AIPS?

    the is an environemnet variable - totally separate.

Eric Greisen


 > 
 > 
 > Quoting Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>:
 > 
 > > Robert F Willson writes:
 > >  > Help! I have a sudden problem with AIPS (31 DEC02 version) which I'm
 > > running in 
 > >  > my Linux box.
 > >  > After I logged in to AIPS today and tried to run a program, say, Lister, I
 > > get 
 > >  > the messages:
 > >  > 
 > >  > ZDIR: COULD NOT TRANSLATE LOGICAL =
 > >  > ZDIR:
 > >  > ZTXMAT ERROR =  2
 > > 
 > >       This is almost ceratinly due to a bad character in the adverb
 > > VERSION.  Set VERSION=' ' and all should be well.
 > > 
 > > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > I also noticed that as AIPS was booting up, I got the following message:
 > >  > 
 > >  > ZDCHIN: NO NETSP RNTRY FOR DA01
 > >  > THIS MEANS THE TIMEDEST LIMIT IS SET TO VALUE IN SP FILE OR 14.0
 > > 
 > >       This is due to a mismatch between the disk area declarations in
 > > $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/DADEVS.LIST (or one of the other ways to get dadevs
 > > declared) and the disk declarations in $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/NETSP.  It is
 > > not serious but you could check the disk declarations as youi start
 > > aips with those in NETSP to remove the annoyance.
 > > 
 > > Eric Greisen
 > > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > I am able to see the UV and map files by saying ucat and mcat. The only
 > > thing 
 > >  > that changed in my system from a couple of days ago is that the network
 > > people 
 > >  > at Tufts connected my machine to new Ethernet jacks in the wall. The
 > > ethernet 
 > >  > address 130.64.40.180 did not change, however.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Thanks for your help!
 > >  > 
 > >  > Rob Willson
 > >  > Department of Physics and Astronomy 
 > >  > Tufts University
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
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