[daip] Writing Archive Data To Tape

[Eric Greisen]

Ilias Fernini wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
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> 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).
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> This is what I did:
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> 1. Loaded the archive into my disk
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> 2. TAR the archive to a DDS 2 tape
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> 3. Use AIPS FIILM to read it.
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> 4. Header Type problem.
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> 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?

You should have left the files on disk.  FILLM  can read them from disk. 
  Once they are compressed into a tar archive they are no longer 
accessible to aips.  DATAIN = file name will read them in.

Eric Greisen