[daip] DATAIN adverb in AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

Cormac Purcell wrote:
> Hi Eric
> 
> Judging by the tone of your email, I have offended you. Please be 
> assured absolutely no offence was intended! It was not meant as a 
> personal criticism, but as an expression of frustration. Of course I 
> understand the position you are coming from and realise that those of us 
> who run AIPS via Parseltongue or ObitTalk are in the minority. However, 
> we are a significant and growing minority.
> 
> As regards the 48 character limit, ObitTalk previously allowed the user 
> to pass longer strings into the adverb. As ObitTalk determines how to 
> interface with an AIPS task from the help file I suspect that a change 
> here is responsible. In any case, it  was easy enough to work around in 
> my script.
> 

I have been worried about the reaction I will get from people who depend 
on AIPS but choose not to talk to me.  I have had people scream at me 
for "breaking their code" and demand that I fix it or continue to make 
ancient versions of AIPS available.  FILLM takes only 48 characters in 
that adverb period.  You can say INFILE = 'xxx' where xxx is more than 
48 but only the 48 will go into the task or the task will not work. 
that is unchanged - only the name changed to protect the guilty.

Sorry to appear so angry - i am just back from vacation and harassed.

eric Greisen