[daip] AIPS MacBook Pro: input displays no integers

[Ylva Pihlstrom]

Hi,

That fixed it. It all looks normal now. Thanks!

Ylva

On May 10, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Wes Young wrote:

> 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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