[daip] Curious FILLM Bug

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Sun Jun 10 18:37:15 EDT 2007


Rick Perley writes:
 >     Eric:
 > 
 >     Just after you left, I discovered a curious FILLM 'feature'.
 > 
 >     If I give a timerange thus:
 > 
 >     0 14 23 0
 > 
 >     (i.e., I specify a start time, but no stop time)
 > 
 >     FILLM starts filling data at 0 0 0 0 -- at the beginning of the 
 > current day.
 > 
 >     If I give a timerange thus:
 > 
 >     0 14 23 0 1
 > 
 >     (i.e., a start time, and a stop time at the end of the current day)
 > 
 >     FILLM begins filling at the requested time, and ends at the 
 > requested time.
 > 
 >     Surely this is not an intended feature ...  My first command was 
 > meant to say:  `Start filling at the requested time, and continue until 
 > I tell you to stop'.

Actually it has been there forever - tend was required to be < tstart
or all were included.  Fixed it for you to match the TIMERANG help
file. 

Eric Greisen




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