[daip] flagver in spflg

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Sep 5 13:19:55 EDT 2007


Crystal Brogan writes:
 > Either the documentation is misleading, or there is a bug in the new 
 > flagver/outfgver when using SPFLG.

    Bug - repair available today.  I left out the 2nd clause in an IF
statement in SPFLG which was already in TVFLG.

 > 
 > I am using today's TST in CV.
 > 
 > FLAGVER=1 was created by UVFLG when a short timerange was flagged for all 
 > data
 > 
 > I set FLAGVER=1; OUTFGVER=1 in SPFLG.
 > 
 > SPFLG seemed to go normally until exiting when I get:
 > 
 > Do you wish to enter them in the data?  Y/N
 > y
 > SPFLG1: Begin actually flagging the data
 > AIPS 1: Resumes
 > >SPFLG1: Writing flagging information in FG table   1
 > SPFLG1: ERROR    1 COPYING OLD FLAGS
 > SPFLG1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > SPFLG1: shadowfax    31DEC07 TST: Cpu=      25.0  Real=      54
 > 
 > Inspection with PRTAB shows that FLAGVER=1 still contains the UVFLG entry 
 > but none of the SPFLG entries as expected by the error message.
 > 
 > Thus it does not appear to be possible to set FLAGVER=OUTFGVER. Based on 
 > the documentation I would have expected the new flags to potentially 
 > overwrite the original flags but not to fail completely.
 > 
 > Setting OUTFGVER=2 instead does result in the expected behavior (FG=1 was 
 > copied and new flags from SPFLG are written).
 > 
 > On a side note, it would be extremely useful if the BOXFILE/OBOXFILE names 
 > from IMAGR were written in the history file.
 > 
I have added this too.

Eric Greisen




More information about the Daip mailing list