[daip] VLANT problem

[Matthew Sharp]

Hi Eric,

   Thanks for the response.  If I go to the ftp site that you
attached, I see a file called baseline.vlais07.  When I copy this file
onto my machine, the task works fine.  Moreover, I can execute the
curl command that you sent with this filename without problem.

   There's no sign of the baselines.vlais.07 file, however, and the
curl command that you sent fails when it doesn't find the file.

   My problem is fixed by copying the file that I see, but perhaps
there's a naming difference between the file that curl asks for and
the files that are being posted?

    thanks again

Matthew


On 6/26/07, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:
> 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
>