[daip] Writing Archive Data To Tape

[Eric Greisen]

IFernini at uaeu.ac.ae wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
> 
> I have recently installed the 31DEC09 AIPS version. I was able to read some old data that I had on a DDS2 4 GB tape without any problem. When I archived some needed data from the VLA archive, I used TAR to load it to a DDS 2 tape but AIPS was not able to read it (header type problem).
> 
> This is what I did:
> 
> 1. Loaded the archive into my disk
> 2. TAR the archive to a DDS 2 tape
> 3. Use AIPS FIILM to read it.
> 4. Header Type problem.
> 
> What kind of program you have to use to load the archive DATA into a DDS 2 in FITS format, so that AIPS can be able to read?
> 
> My best thanks for your help.

AIPS task FILLM can read the archive files directly from disk.  It 
cannot read tar format tape or disk files.  After step 1 above,

copy the archive files to your $FITS area

in AIPS, set DATAIN='FITS:AR653_'

where you should substitute your observing code for the example AR653 above.

It needs the files to have predictable names: e.g.
     AR653_1
     AR653_2
     AR653_3
In that case, set NFILES=0 to find the _1 and NCOUNT=3 to load all three.

Eric Greisen