[daip] VLANT problem?

[Eric Greisen]

Deidre Hunter wrote:
> When we try running VLANT, we get
> 
> turtle> VLANT1: Task VLANT  (release of 31DEC08) begins
> turtle> VLANT1: TFETCH: DATA FILE NOT FOUND IN /tmp AFTER curl
> turtle> VLANT1: Trying wget instead
> turtle> VLANT1: TFETCH: wget OF DATA FILE FAILED
> turtle> VLANT1: ERROR    2 OPENING FILE FOR YEAR 2008
> turtle> VLANT1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> 
> This was originally on a new iMac running the "leopard" operating  
> system. Since this computer is my first experience with leopard, I  
> thought it was the operating system. However, I have now tried  
> running VLANT on this data set on my MacPro, which is running Mac  
> OSX10.4.11 (pre-leopard), where I have successfully run VLANT several  
> times recently. Is the problem that the file for updating the antenna  
> positions doesn't yet exist for March 2008? If so, is there some  
> estimate of when it might exist?

I attempted to be helpful on Macs because they do not always detect that 
wget fails (there is usually no wget) so I made the order of command 
change for Macs - but the grammar differs too and I did not get that 
right.  The MNJ tomorrow should fix it.

Eric Greisen