[daip] VLANT problem

[Eric Greisen]

Matthew Sharp writes:

 >     I'm trying to apply baseline corrections with VLANT, but find that
 > it crashes with:
 > 
 > LOCALH> VLANT1: TFETCH: CANNOT FIND COMMAND wget
 > LOCALH> VLANT1: Trying curl instead
 > LOCALH> VLANT1: TFETCH: curl OF DATA FILE FAILED
 > LOCALH> VLANT1: ERROR    2 OPENING FILE FOR YEAR 2007
 > LOCALH> VLANT1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > 
 >    I last MNJ'd about four weeks ago...am I failing to find the
 > updated positions because my ftp is set up incorrectly?  This worked
 > for me with 2006aips, but not anymore.

No it did not.  VLANT is not in 31DEC06, it is new.  This function
requires your computer to have internet access.  I am betting it is a
Mac (Linux almost always has wget).  I do not know why curl would
fail.  (Unfortunately, to avoid excess normal messages and error
messages are blocked also.)  

The command (simplified some) that is being executed is

curl -o /tmp/baselines.vlais.07 ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/VLA/baselines/baselines.vlais.07

You could try that from the command line and see what it says.

A work around that would have to be repeated is to copy by hand the
relevant file and put it in $AIPSTARS as VLA.ant.2007.

Eric Greisen