[daip] FILLM error

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Sep 29 10:41:03 EDT 2008


Yoshiaki Hagiwara wrote:
> Dear Aips people, 
> 
> I have trouble with reading the VLA archived data (AT322), that
> were jsut downloaded from VLA site a few min ago.
> 
> The data are in the ../AIPS/FITS, so I specified  
> INFILE to be 'FITS:AT322_1  but AIPS complains
> he cannot find the file of "FITS:AT322_11"
> I input "AT322_1" as INFILE  but system does
> recognizes as AT322_11". 
> 
> Why '1' is appended to the end of the file name?
> 
> [hagiwara at mizuho]# pwd
> /home/hagiwara/AIPS/FITS
> [hagiwara at mizuho]# ls AT*
> AT322_1  AT322_A060302.xp1

> AIPS 1: INFILE     'FITS:AT322_1                                    '
> AIPS 1:                                    Non-blank: disk file name
> AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
> AIPS 1:                                    Also applies to ON-LINE!

You should set INFILE='FITS:AT322_' - the program appends the file 
number to the end of the name (which allows the task to read multiple 
files).  The NFILES adverb controls the starting file number and 0 => 
start at file 1.  The help file explains all this.

Eric Greisen




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