[daip] Exporting and Import DATA areas

[Eric Greisen]

Karim Elatov wrote:
> Dear Aips Help,
>     I have been having some trouble exporting and importing data areas 
> from one install of aips to another. Here is what I have done to export 
> the data.
> 
> Here is exactly what I did:
>> START AIPS:
>

>> ====================================================================
>>
> 
>>>> go wrtdisk

>> inp readisk
> AIPS 1: READISK: procedure to read maps or uv data to disk
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1:                                    type RUN WRTPROCS first!
> AIPS 1: OLDVOL        1                    Disk # input to WRITDISK
> AIPS 1: DATAIN     'PWD:'
> AIPS 1:                                    Logical directory name
> AIPS 1: NFILES        1                    First catalog number
> AIPS 1: NCOUNT      153                    Last catalog number
> AIPS 1: OUTDISK       7                    Output UV file disk drive #
> AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP      0                    >0 => compressed data (FITS)
>> run readisk
> AIPS 1: TEXT FOR READISK UNAVAILABLE

Note what you did for writdisk - it is a procedure which you cause to 
execute by entering its name.  (The phrase "go writdisk" causes a "tput 
writdisk; writdisk" to be executed.)  Type in "readisk" rather than "run 
readisk".

Eric Greisen

(May I congratulate you on sending all of the details so that I can 
check all sorts of things - so many users send almost nothing.)