[daip] AIPS installation

[Eric Greisen]

Sridharan Rengaswamy writes:
 > Hello Eric, Wes and Pat,
 > 
 > Thanks a lot.  display works for me now.
 > 
 > 1. I edited /etc/services as per eric's suggestion.
 > 2. I edited /etc/hosts to contain only  one line given by Wes.
 > 3. I tried including tv=local tpok.  But I also found that I need not
 > include  tv=local because
 > even in this case I get the same AIPS TV screen.
 > 4. I think, I don't need sshd now.
 > 
 > Eric: my compiler version is
 > sridhar at chandrama:~/aips$ g77 --version
 > GNU Fortran (GCC) 3.4.6 (Ubuntu 3.4.6-6ubuntu2)
 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 > 
 > In retrospect, I realize that the compiler options I used may not be the
 > best.  Is there drastic
 > change in speed if binary installation is used?

It depends on what CPU chip you have - a recent Pentium IV maight see
as much as 40% improvement with the Intel load modules.  3.4.6 will
work however.

ERic Greisen