[daip] [!4708]: aips - Problem when running ANCAL

[Wei Zhao]

Wei Zhao updated #4708
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Problem when running ANCAL
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           Ticket ID: 4708
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/4708
           Full Name: Wei Zhao
               Email: weizhao at shao.ac.cn
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Processing
       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen
                Type: Issue
              Status: Open
            Priority: Default
                 SLA: NRAO E2E
      Template Group: Default
             Created: 21 March 2014 08:32 AM
             Updated: 24 March 2014 05:46 AM
      Resolution Due: 31 March 2014 08:32 AM (7d 2h 45m)



Hi Eric!

I just let one of my co-workers run ANCAL on his computer with the same text file.
He gets the error message like

"LOCALH> ANCAL1: Task ANCAL  (release of 31DEC12) begins
LOCALH> ANCAL1: ZTXOP2: using translated file name =
LOCALH> ANCAL1: ZTXOP2: /Users/fgao/work/mcp/TY
LOCALH> ANCAL1: BAD ENTRY IN GB       TSYS CARD :   88 87: 6    87.0
LOCALH> ANCAL1: ZCLOSE: DOES NOT PERFORM TEXT FILE CLOSES AS OF 15OCT87
LOCALH> ANCAL1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
LOCALH> ANCAL1: localhost    31DEC12 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0" 

But later he tried with ANTAB, and  everything works fine and he gets the TY table that I need.

THe attachment is the text file  to which I pointed with adverb CALIN.
The second line of the note in the file is " ! This section can be read by ANCAL in AIPS."
which mislead me to use ANCAL instead of ANTAB.


> I talked to our VLBI expert and she never uses ANCAL.
 > ANTAB, followed by APCAL, is the normal route to do
 > what ANCAL tries to do. I also looked at the code for
 > ANCAL and it does a lot of things in Fortran that it is
 > not supposed to do - fixing it will be difficult and there is
 > no data set available to test it on.
 > 
 > Eric Greisen
 > 
 > 


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