[daip] [Fwd: Re: problem loading EVLA dataset into AIPS]

[Eric Greisen]

Data Analysts wrote:

> 
>> The archive says the file should have been about 13.41 GB.
>> Was that the size of the file on your computer?  It might
>> have been truncated in the copying process
> 
> The data size on my computer is about 14.5 Gb (so even more...)
> 
> However, I also tried to download the dataset after time avereging (5s), to reduce the size down to to 2.7 Gb, and I got the same problem. I'm pretty sure that the copying process was complete.
> 

This is happening a lot!

Did you say binary when you ran ftp?  If not it may think that it is 
copying text and actually add bytes to the file during the copy.

Look at the file size in bytes.  It must be an integer times 2880 to be 
a valid FITS file.

Eric Greisen