[daip] ERROR: buffer size too small when applying BP table

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Nov 20 11:04:03 EST 2008


Anne-Marie Brick wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to reduce some spectral line LBA data in AIPS, and I have 
> run into a problem when trying to apply the BP table to the data. I can 
> look at the data using POSSM, and I can look at the BP solution in 
> POSSM, but when I try to look at the data with the BP solution applied I 
> get the following error.
> 
> ITBSRT: BUFFER SIZE  199680 TOO SMALL FOR LREC= 32797
> BPASET: ERROR    1 SORTING BP TABLE
> 
> This also occurred when I tried to SPLIT a small section of the data out.
> 
> I have tried selecting a small time range of data (2mins) and a small 
> number of channels (the dataset is 2048 channels across 2 MHz), and I 
> keep getting the same error.
> 
> I tried to do a google search to see if I could find any information on 
> the error, but was unable to find anything.

This looks to be a real bother - can you send me the output of IMHEADER
for your file.  (Note this must be fixed - our new correlator is putting 
out more channels than this already.)

Eric Greisen




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