[daip] EDITR

[Eric Greisen]

James Miller-Jones wrote:
> Dear AIPS,
> 
> I have been using the task EDITR with the 31DEC08 version of AIPS (and a
> midnight job which I ran two days ago), and have been having some problems
> with source association.  I have an observation consisting of 5 sources,
> and have been sequentially editing the data from each of the sources in
> turn, using EDITR.  In order to prevent the flagging of a time range for
> one source from inadvertently flagging an intervening scan on a different
> source, I had been switching the "SWITCH ALL SOURCE" option to say "ONE
> SOURCE".  However, when I subsequently examined the FG table generated by
> EDITR, it seems that regardless of which source I am attempting to flag
> (1,2,3,4 or 5), column 1 of the flag table only ever reads 1 (the first
> source in the catalog).  When switching the SWITCH ALL SOURCE option to
> all sources, this reads 0.  Thus I can only ever flag all sources at once,
> or the first source in the list.  I have tried re-sorting and re-indexing
> the data using UVSRT and INDXR, but that did not help.  TVFLG does not
> give this sort of problem, and will place the correct source ID in the FG
> table.
> 
> Am I missing something, or is there a bug in the software?  Please let me
> know what I should do.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> James Miller-Jones
> 
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Am I correct in assuming that you run TVFLG and EDITR the same way - 
specifying a single source with SOURCES?  I suspect a bug - EDITR has 
many quirks.

Note that a work around would be TABED - start w source 5 and tabed the 
source column from 1 to 5.  Then 4, then 3, etc

Eric