[daip] aips help

[Eric Greisen]

Cao Hongmin wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i just installed  aips *|*(31DEC11*| 
> <http://www.aips.nrao.edu/dec11.shtml>)* in my laptop installed ubuntu 
> 11.04.
> when i type: ~$aips,  and then the terminal prompts as following(see 
> the* boldface* below), but tek window doesn't appear.  if something 
> wrong? how can i let the tek window appear?
> 
> thank you for your help,
> 
> best regards
> 
> hongmin
> 
> *START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the
> START_AIPS:  - system name , AIPS type
>  
> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
> DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
>   (Using global default file /home/chm-novae/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for 
> DADEVS.PL)
>    Disk 1 (1) is /home/chm-novae/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
> 
> Tape assignments:
>    Tape 1 is REMOTE
>    Tape 2 is REMOTE
>  
> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called localhost
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC11 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC11) at priority =   0
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?DADEVS.PL: This program is untested under Perl version 5.010
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width 1270 height 700,
>      max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY :0
> 
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?99
> AIPS 1:                          31DEC11 AIPS:
> AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Associated Universities, Inc.
> AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
> AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
> AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
> AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
> AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
> AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit

This all looks good.  The TEKSRV program runs in an xterm window which
is normally in icon form.  In fact the way it works, it needs never to
be opened.  When TKPL runs, the TEKSRV opens another xterm in non-icon
form which contains the plot.

Eric Greisen