[daip] DATAIN adverb in AIPS

[Cormac Purcell]

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.

So, please accept my apologies. Once again, no offence or criticism 
intented.

Best regards,

Cormac


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Eric Greisen wrote:
> Cormac Purcell wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> I've just run the mnj on my binary 31DEC08 version and managed to 
>> break my ObitTalk scripts. Some of the adverb names have changed 
>> (grr!) e.g., from INFILE to DATAIN, which would be easy to compensate 
>> for. Unfortunately, when running FITLD the task now enforces the 48 
>> character limit on the file name, which it did not before. Is there 
>> any chance that you could expand this to a larger value? In my 
>> scripts I pass in a string containing the full path +file name, which 
>> in some cases is up to 200 characters long.
>
> I take no responsibility for software written by others that do not 
> consult and make agreements with me.  I will change things like this 
> as I see fit in consideration of the best for aips general users.
>
> In particular, the names had much too much conflict so I broadened the 
> name space to avoid nasty things like print files appended to FITS 
> files and so forth.
>
> FITLD did not change one iota with this change - only the help file. 
> The 48-character limit has been and is still present.
>
> Eric Greisen