[daip] prtuv/uvprt problems

[Eric Greisen]

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this is still the right forum for AIPS related questions.
> 
> I am running 31DEC12 AIPS, which I downloaded on Mar 9 2012.
> I am trying to print visibilities to a file for further processing and 
> have the following problems.
> 
> - PRTUV prints u, v, w as integers (in kl) and hence loses precision.
> - UVPRT does print u, v, w with two decimals, which is fine.
> 
> But both tasks allot only 4 spaces for the phase, which means that if the 
> phase is < -99, there is no longer an empty space or a separator between 
> the amplitude and the phase, which makes parsing the text file very 
> difficult.
> 
> I use dparm=0.
> 
> Can someone tell me if I can specify the format in some fashion, or offer 
> a solution ? I need to do this for many files, and hence fixing it in AIPS 
> would be easier.

The formatting code is quite complicated since the width of the 
"printer" is not known in advance - although when we go to a file we 
assume 132.  I have added DPARM(6) to UVPRT to specify phase displays 
from -90 to + 269.  That should work for you.

Tomorrow's MNJ should get this.

Eric Greisen