[daip] aips problem

[bcotton at nrao.edu]

Eric,

   The name, class etc of the file don't matter here, it's the name
given the object.

Eric Greisen writes:
 > bcotton at nrao.edu wrote:
 > > Eric,
 > > 
 > >    It's been a while since I did much with this but my guess is that
 > > you have two objects with the same name; NAME as passed to OBDSKC.
 > > This is used as a key in the c structure with the information and if
 > > somehow you ended up with multiple entries with the same name, you'd
 > > get the first (or last?) one it found.
 > 
 > The one with the high seq number should not have been in the task in any 
 > way.  It is true that the 12 char name and 6 char class are the same as 
 > the output one, but not the seq number.
 > 
 > On another point:
 > 
 > BDFIn appears to be filling in 16 characters of task name in the table 
 > headers - AIPS can tolerate 12 actually but buffer(42) is NREC - the 
 > number of records to expand the file.  When it says 538976288 = '    ' 
 > (??) it takes a very long time to do the expansion!  I guess I had 
 > better make TABINI smarter although that means relinking all of
 > AIPS.

   I'll have a look at this.  A fix will also require relinking Obit
but this is a couple minutes.

-Bill