[daip] AIPS MacBook Pro: input displays no integers

[Wes Young]

Ylva,

Wipe the old AIPS on the macbook pro and install from scratch. Use  
the binary install unless you need to build specialized tasks.

I'm impressed ppc version of AIPS worked as well as it did on the  
macbook pro!.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On May 10, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Ylva Pihlstrom wrote:

> Wes,
>
> I did it two different ways:
>
> First I just use the Migration Assistant copying over everything  
> from my Powerbook. AIPS worked ok, but with that weird problem (I  
> also noticed it shows up in plots, on the TV window etc).  In a  
> second try I removed my 31DEC07 directory (but not my old AIPS  
> versions) and reinstalled the binaries, with the same result.
>
> Do you think that I should completely wipe out my AIPS directory,  
> reinstall everything from the beginning? I will try that.
>
> Ylva
>
>
> On May 10, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Wes Young wrote:
>
>> Ylva,
>>
>> So when you say "copied over" what exactly did you copy?  The  
>> powerbook is big endian and macbook pro is little endian, if you  
>> copied over data and executables you're taking a big performance  
>> hit over what the native intel gives you.  I suppose it could  
>> cause your .99 issue too??? Then with native intel, you data disks  
>> will be the wrong byte order so there will be trouble. So if you  
>> really just did a recursive copy of your AIPS disk from the  
>> powerbook to the macbook pro, you're probably asking for trouble.   
>> I would suggest doing a fresh binary install on the macbook pro  
>> and then to/from fits your data.
>>
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>> On May 9, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Ylva Pihlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just copied over my AIPS distribution from my old Powerbook to a
>>> new MacBook Pro, and it all seems to work properly. Just one  
>>> annoying
>>> thing:  when looking at the inputs I don't get integers but 0.99
>>> instead of 1 (see below). I am not sure if this is an xterm/X11 or
>>> AIPS issue. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Ylva
>>>
>>>> inp
>>> AIPS 1: SPLIT     Task to split multi-source uv data to single  
>>> source
>>> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
>>> AIPS 1:  
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> AIPS 1:                                    also works on single  
>>> files.
>>> AIPS 1: INNAME     'W44EF_Q2'              Input UV file name (name)
>>> AIPS 1: INCLASS    'LINE'                  Input UV file name  
>>> (class)
>>> AIPS 1: INSEQ          .99:                Input UV file name  
>>> (seq. #)
>>> AIPS 1: INDISK        5.999:               Input UV file disk unit #
>>> AIPS 1: SOURCES    'W44EF'                 Source list
>>> AIPS 1:            *rest ' '
>>> AIPS 1: QUAL          -.99:                Source qualifier -1=>all
>>> AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '     
>>> '=>all
>>> AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to copy
>>> AIPS 1: STOKES     ' '                     Stokes type to pass.
>>> AIPS 1: SELBAND       -.99:                Bandwidth to select (kHz)
>>> AIPS 1: SELFREQ       -.99:                Frequency to select (MHz)
>>> AIPS 1: FREQID        -.99:                Freq. ID to select.
>>> AIPS 1: BIF           1.99:                Lowest IF number 0=>all
>>> AIPS 1: EIF           1.99:                Highest IF number 0=>all
>>> AIPS 1: BCHAN          .99:                Lowest channel number  
>>> 0=>all
>>> AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest channel number
>>> AIPS 1: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit  
>>> print **
>>>
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