[daip] Cannot start AIPS task

[Eric Greisen]

Shane.O'sullivan at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run a private version of the task RM in the DEC09 version of AIPS on my SnowLeopard laptop and I get this error:
> AIPS 1: Found in Version=RM
> AIPS 1: ZACTV9: CANNOT START RM1
> AIPS 1: ERRNO = 8 (Exec format error)
> AIPS 1: TASK HAS NOT BEGUN IN   15.1 SECONDS
> AIPS 1: Begin check for any 'standard' scratch files
> AIPS 1: Scratch files -- destroyed:    0  still active:    0
> AIPS 1: Resumes
> The rest of my AIPS tasks work fine and the private RM task works fine on previous versions of AIPS installed on other machines.
> Any ideas?
>

Yes - you are on a new kind of computer and are trying to use a load 
module for another kind of computer.  Linux load modules do not run on 
Macs.  That is what "Exec format error" means.

Eric Greisen