[daip] VLANT

[Eric Greisen]

Hong-Xin Zhang wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
>     I am a pre-doc of Deidre Hunter, and I encountered a problem with VLANT when I calibrate a C-array data (HI-line in L band) obtained on 2008 May 31. 
> The message returned from AIPS is as follows:
> 
> KAME  > VLANT1: Task VLANT  (release of 31DEC08) begins
> KAME  > VLANT1: TFETCH: curl OF DATA FILE FAILED AFTER curl
> KAME  > VLANT1: Trying wget instead
> KAME  > VLANT1: TFETCH: wget OF DATA FILE FAILED
> KAME  > VLANT1: ERROR    2 OPENING FILE FOR YEAR 2011
> KAME  > VLANT1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> 
> The same message was returned no matter whether I run VLANT on the LINCOP data or the LINE data read by FILLM. 
> 
> Could you tell me how to cope with this problem? 

I cannot generate fixes for old versions of AIPS - 31DEC10 is now the 
frozen release, 2 years more recent than the one you are using.  I 
recommend installing 31DEC10 (or 31DEC11).  VLANT now understands that 
the VLA terminated in 2010 and will not try to read beyond that date.
But your old version did not have the foresight to know this.

Eric Greisen