[daip] AIPS catalog limit
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Oct 24 15:49:41 EDT 2012
Shami Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi, I'm very close to 200 entries in a disk catalog, and I think I remember that AIPS allowed only 200 entries at most. Is that limit still present? If so, could it please be relaxed? (I assume that it is a holdover from days of far smaller disks.)
>
> It would be very advantageous to my cut-and-paste scripts if I didn't have to switch disk numbers for my processing, and moving files from one disk to another is still rather painful... I'm on the MNJ so applying an update is not a problem for me.
We used to have an installation-dependent limit - that has been relaxed
and now all we have is an installation-dependent increment in CA file
size. I personally am way over 200 and Frazer is well over 2000!
Eric Greisen
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