[daip] nchav, chinc in TVFLG

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Sun Jul 6 17:32:20 EDT 2008


Lynn D. Matthews wrote:
> I am experiencing some problems trying to use the NCHAV and CHINC options 
> in TVFLG.
> 
> For example, if I attempt to load every 10th channel to the TV by setting 
> BCHAN 1; ECHAN 0; NCHAV 1; CHINC 10, this results in the messages:
> 
> wrest > TVFLG1: Task TVFLG  (release of 31DEC08) begins
> wrest > TVFLG1: Begin finding a list of times to enter the grid
> wrest > TVFLG1: Found    47 time intervals to grid, so
> wrest > TVFLG1: begin gridding the data to a temporary TVFLGR file
> wrest > TVFLG1: Create OCET SIO FEB.TVFLGR.   1 (MA)  on disk  1  cno  516
> wrest > TVFLG1: UVGET: Using flag table version   2 to edit data
> wrest > TVFLG1: ZMI2: REQUEST FOR BYTES 4472833 THRU = 4571136 BEYOND EOF = 4472
> wrest >         832
> wrest > TVFLG1: ZMIO: OPER=WRIT LUN=22 BLKNO=        4369 8-BIT-BYTES= 98304
> wrest > TVFLG1: ZERROR: IN ZMI2 ERRNO = 22 (Invalid argument)
> wrest > TVFLG1: GTBWRT: UNABLE TO WRITE OUTPUT IMAGE FILE - ERROR    3 ROW   17
> wrest > TVFLG1: GRIDTB: ERROR    3 FROM GTBWRT
> wrest > TVFLG1: Destroyed MA image file: catno=    516 disk= 1
> wrest > TVFLG1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> wrest > TVFLG1: wrest 31DEC08 TST: Cpu=      0.1  Real=      1  IO=        64
> 
> Also, if I try to create an average of 50 channels, setting BCHAN 10; 
> ECHAN 59; NCHAV 50 ; CHINC 1 (or CHINC 0), the result is:
> 
> wrest > TVFLG1: Create OCET SIO FEB.TVFLGR.   1 (MA)  on disk  1  cno  516
> wrest > TVFLG1: UVGET: Using flag table version   2 to edit data
> wrest > TVFLG1: NO DATA SELECTED, CHECK ADVERBS
> wrest > TVFLG1: Destroyed MA image file: catno=    516 disk= 1
> wrest > TVFLG1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> wrest > TVFLG1: wrest 31DEC08 TST: Cpu=      0.2  Real=      0  IO=        74
> 
> This one is solved by setting CHINC=NCHAV, although this is different from 
> IMAGR, which accepts the above and sets CHINC=NCHAV automatically.

TVFLG has been fixed to set the internal ECHAN and CHINC properly to 
avoid these errors.  The MNJ Monday morning should fix this.

Thanks,

Eric Greisen




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