[daip] AIPS error messeges

[Eric Greisen]

Sayali Avachat wrote:
> Hi Eric, 
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> Okay so, I run KLEENEX in AIPS which solved my half the problem but the 
> other problem with TVFLG still persists even after running RECAT on all 
> the disks in AIPS. 
> I tried to find the files with ls -lt ??Dnnn*.uuu\; and it returned 
> atleast a few hundreds of files containg ??Dnnn
> Can you be more specific about what do the TVFLG files look like or what 
> exactly am I suppose to look at? 
> If you can provide me with more specific instructions, it will be 
> easier, because it looks like there are going to thousands of files to 
> check.

>     2. This one is likely to be a bigger nuisance.  The error means that
>     file already exists of the name that TVFLG tried to assign to the
>     grid file.  This means that in some way your CA (catalog) file is
>     missing an entry it should have - presumably because of some process
>     dying badly or some such.  The above messages do not identify the
>     disk and catalog number where the failure occurred so you will need
>     to do detective work.   If there is only 1 aips disk it gets easier
>     or if IN2DISK was specified, then you know which disk.  do a CLRNAM;
>     INDI=n; CATA where n = the disk number.  Look for the first catalog
>     number not having an entry.
> 
>     Outside AIPS, cd to the relevant data area.
> 
>     ls -lt ??Dnnn*.uuu\;
> 
>     where nnn is the catalog number in 3-digit extended HEX (base 36)
>     and uuu is your user number in the same form.  There is a proc in
>     the AIPS path called EHEX which converts decimal into extended hex.
> 
>     These files are not known in the catalog - if you do not know what
>     they are, deleting them is an easy response.  There is also a
>     stand-alone program (outside aips) which you can run if there is a
>     CBDnnn*.uuu\; file.
>         cd $AIPS_ROOT
>         source LOGIN.CSH     (or . LOGIN.SH for bash)
>         $CDTST
>         RUN RECAT
>     and answer the questions.

I think you should send me output of the ls -l.  Normally there are very 
few files attached to a single catalog entry unless you have made a 
large spectral line cube (then lots of CC files) or many plots (PL files).

Eric Greisen