[daip] unable to reassign FITS environment variable

[Gustaaf Van Moorsel]

But didn't reassigning FITS used to work until not too long ago?

Gustaaf
 

Eric Greisen wrote:
> Gustaaf Van Moorsel wrote:
>> A user reported FITLD was unable to find her input file as specified
>> in DATAIN.  Though before starting AIPS she had reassigned the environ-
>> ment variable FITS to point at the directory her data were in, both
>> DATAIN='FILE' and DATAIN='FITS:FILE' failed to locate her file.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce this behavior here.  I also found that FITLD
>> continued to find files in the area the enviroment variable FITS used
>> to point to, in my case /DATA/OXUS_1/FITS.  So I suggested that the
>> user either put her files in her standard FITS area, or define a diff-
>> erent enviroment variable altogether to point at the location of her
>> files.  This was successful.
>>
>> I am pretty sure it used to be possible to reassign the FITS environ-
>> ment variable prior to starting AIPS, but it seems currently AIPS, on
>> startup, reassigns FITS to the standard area.  I don't know if this
>> is by design, so I am reporting this just in case it is not.
> It is by design.  Users should invent their own names as in every 
> example we give.
>
> Eric Greisen