[daip] [Fwd: VLANT]

[Eric Greisen]

Data Analysts wrote:
> 
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> 
> Subject:
> VLANT
> From:
> "Jean L. Turner" <turner at astro.UCLA.EDU>
> Date:
> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:17:15 -0800 (PST)
> To:
> analysts at aoc.nrao.edu
> 
> To:
> analysts at aoc.nrao.edu
> 
> 
> Dear Analysts:
> 
> I am using the new (just installed 31DEC09) version of AIPS on data
> from 2007. When I try to run VLANT it bombs. It seems to have
> downloaded 2009 baseline data. I've not had trouble with it on
> previous versions of AIPS (on a different computer). Everything else
> I've run in this version of AIPS seems to work fine, it's just VLANT.
> I'm running on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5.6 if that matters. If
> there is any information you can give me on how to get this to work,
> I'd appreciate it. I can't find anything on the web about it.
>

AIPS questions should be addressed to daip at nrao.edu.  The analysts use 
aips some but are not responsible for it.

VLANT usually has to download the information even from this year which 
is updated at irregular intervals by the analysts and so is not 
distributed with aips.   It uses web tools to do this.  The file it 
fetches goes to /tmp named baselines.vlais09 (this year).  The files 
distributed with AIPS for previous years are in $AIPSTARS 
($AIPS_ROOT/TEXT/STARS) under names such as VLA.ant.2008.  If the 
download is what is failing, then you can use whatever to get the latest 
file in pub/VLA/baselines at ftp.aoc.nrao.edy and move it to the area 
under the suitable 2009 name.

We have had reports on Mac books with the latest OS of the task failing 
after the download.  We have been unable to confirm or debug those 
reports since it works flawlessly on the data sets in question on our 
workstation running the latest Mac OS and on another workstation used 
for the MNJ link edits running an older Mac OS.

I am not sure what it is we might do to help under these circumstances...

Eric Greisen