[daip] VLANT problem

[Eric Greisen]

Kim Herrmann wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> I have recently started at Lowell Observatory as Deidre Hunter's postdoc 
> to work on her LITTLE (Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes) 
> THINGS (The H I Nearby Galaxy Survey) project.  Since I'm new to radio 
> astronomy, Deidre has been teaching me about reducing VLA data with 
> AIPS.  However, we were following a LITTLE THINGS AIPS recipe with new 
> data (D array of DDO 52 with only one frequency) when we had the 
> following problem with VLANT:
> 
>  >default VLANT
>  >getn 3
> AIPS 1: Got(1)   disk= 1  user=   4   type=UV   DDO52-D.LINCOP.1
>  >go
> 
> This returned:
> 
> tortue> VLANT1: Task VLANT  (release of 31DEC08) begins
> tortue> VLANT1: /tmp/baselines.vlais08 copied from the VLA web site
> tortue> VLANT1: ZABORS: signal 11 received
> tortue> VLANT1: ABORT!
> 
> We tried e-mailing Michael Rupen on Monday (a LITTLE THINGS team 
> member), but have not heard back from him.  Can you help us?  Please let 
> us know if you have any suggestions for us.

I do not know why you guys have all the trouble with VLANT and no one 
else seems to - maybe no one else is running it?

I need to know:
1. What operating system are you running on?
2. Which data set is it?  Then I can fetch it here from the archive and 
test the task locally.

Eric Greisen