[daip] AIPS POPS numbers

[Eric Greisen]

Franz Kirsten wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> finally my ParselTongue scripts are doing what I want and I managed to
> parallelize things. The way ParselTongue does this (you probably already
> know this) is to mimic several AIPS sessions. Now, it seems as though
> you can at most run eight AIPS sessions in parallel which means that I
> can also have at most eight jobs running in parallel. I talked to Mark
> Kettenis and he said that it might be possible to get more than eight of
> the 15 POPS numbers available as AIPS session through a re-compile of
> AIPS. In the install wizard for text installation you of course don't
> get the option to choose how many of those numbers you want available.
> So here's my question: Is it all possible to get more than eight POPS
> numbers available as sessions? If so, what would I have to do?
> 
> I tried to trick AIPS by having a second AIPS installation and just
> sourcing the different LOGIN.SH and run two different PT-scripts. One
> AIPS installation seems to know about the other one though and I am
> still restricted to eight jobs.
> 
> Regards,
> Franz

You may have up to 35 aips numbers.  The stand-alone program SETPAR 
controls this.  However, if you increase the number of interactive aips 
then you have top make more files and initialize them.  The stand-alone 
program FILAIP is probably what you want to use to do both.

Eric Greisen