[daip] [Fwd: moving data to different machines ....]

[Wes Young]

Beware that MacIntel has the same byte order as LinuxIntel, MacPPC  
has the opposite order.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Amy Mioduszewski wrote:

> Hi Victor,
>
> The data analysts forwarded your question to daip at nrao.edu since it  
> is mostly an
> AIPS question.
>
> It depends.  What sort of UNIX are you transferring from?  Solaris  
> and Mac Unix
> has the opposite byte order than Linux.   In that case you can use the
> procedures WRTDISK and READISK to transfer the files (i.e., you  
> need to write
> the files out to a fits file, copy them and then read them back  
> in).  If you are
> transferring the files from a compatible Unix then type RUN RECAT  
> *outside* of
> AIPS follow the instructions and that will recreate the catalog  
> with the new files.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Amy
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ---
>>
>> Subject:
>> moving data to different machines ....
>> From:
>> Victor Migenes <vmigenes at astro.ugto.mx>
>> Date:
>> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:09:59 -0500 (CDT)
>> To:
>> analysts at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>> To:
>> analysts at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I hope you can help me with a quick question.....
>>
>> I loaded some VLBA data on my machine (FITLD).  Everyhting looks OK!
>> I then ftp'ed the data from my machine to another (UNIX to LINUX)  
>> that
>> will use the same AIPS number.  When I try to start AIPS from the 2nd
>> machine it does not see the data on the disk!! I tried deleting the
>> CAD000000 file on the disk to see if AIPS would generate a new one  
>> but
>> that didn't help.  I tried using the AIPS task MOVE and that did  
>> not work
>> either.  Is there a way that I can make AIPS see that data without  
>> loading
>> it again from DAT? I believe there was a way but I dont recall .....
>>
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Vic.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> +- Dr. Victor Migenes                  Telephone: +52 (473)  
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>> |  Department of  
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