[daip] ATLOD

[Adam Deller]

Hi daip,

I know atlod is marginally supported at best, but I thought I'd bring
up one one annoying limitation I've found.  I can't get it to work
with an (upper case) environment variable for the directory path.  It
just barfs and says it can't find the file.  I have:

export V190G=/export/home/marathon2/data/v190/v190g/

in AIPS:

datain = 'V190G:V190G.GATED.1.RPF'

with other things sensibly defaulted, but it won't work.  I see

localh> ATLOD1: ZTPOPN: DISK DEVICE = /export/home/marathon2/d NOT FOUND
localh> ATLOD1: TAPIO: ERROR   2 OPENING FILE
localh> ATLOD1: ERROR, UNABLE TO OPEN THE RPFITS FILE.

But if I copy the file into the $FITS area and set

datain = 'V190G.GATED.1.RPF'

it runs fine.  So I think there is something amiss either with  ZTPOPN
or atlod's use of it.

Cheers,
Adam

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