[daip] Flagging in AIPS: applying large numbers of flag commands

[Jose Afonso]

Dear daip,

over the time I have found that applying a large number of flag commands 
to a uv data file in AIPS can be problematic. In particular, SPFLG and 
FLGIT (recent versions) can write large FG tables. However, it seems 
that there is no secure way to *apply* these flags to the dataset. As 
far as I can tell, only UVCOP can handle more than 5000 flag commands 
(up to 50000?). However, I am currently producing FG tables with more 
than 90000 entries (as seen by TBOUT these tables). Is it possible to 
actually apply such tables in AIPS?

thank you very much,
Jose Afonso

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Jose Manuel Afonso
Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa
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