[daip] aips problem

[bcotton at nrao.edu]

Eric Greisen writes:
> 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.
 > 
   Actually that section of the record is blank filled.  For the
"Creation task name" and "Last write access task name" it uses "Obit  "
as Obit task names are not limited to 5 characters.  
   What value would you like for integer # 42?  Will 1 or 0 cause
something sensible to happen?  

-Bill