[daip] Waiting for POSSM and BPLOT

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Apr 12 15:16:33 EDT 2010


Andy Biggs wrote:
> Hi Eric. I only really use POSSM in its (probably) most basic mode i.e. 
> to view amplitude and phase as a function of frequency for usually some 
> restricted set of baselines. I occasionally use it to view BP tables, 
> but I prefer to use BPLOT for that. VPLOT, for example, always does the 
> right thing i.e. asks you if you want to continue, pause or end if there 
> are subsequent plots to come, but doesn't bring up these options once 
> all the requested baselines have been plotted.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 9 Apr 2010, at 19:23, Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
>> Andy Biggs wrote:
>>> Hi Eric. I've noticed the following for years, but have never 
>>> reported it as it's really quite trivial, but when you're repeatedly 
>>> running tasks it quickly becomes quite irritating. The problem is 
>>> that POSSM, once having completed all its plots, insists on waiting 
>>> for 30 secs and asking if you wish to continue, A, B, C, etc. even 
>>> when there's nothing else to plot. BPLOT has a similar issue in that 
>>> if I only plot a single antenna, it also asks if I wish to continue, 
>>> despite having done all I've asked it to. Would these by easy things 
>>> to fix?
>>> Thanks.
>>> Andy
>>
>> I have looked at BPLOT and think I see ways to fix it - what modes are 
>> you running in POSSM (it has so many) that you would like addressed?
>>
>> Eric
>>

I have fixed BPLOT I hope - tomorrow's MNJ should bring you the 
corrections.  But my tests of POSSM (with NPLOT>0, some ANTEN,
BASEL=ANTEN, SOLINT=0) seems already to know when to end.  Did you set 
SOLINT? or ??

Cheers,

Eric




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