[daip] A simple request for PRTAB
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Sep 16 16:34:05 EDT 2014
On 09/15/2014 11:47 AM, Craig Walker wrote:
> PRTAB has two inputs for controlling how many entries for a column are
> shown - NCOUNT and BDROP/EDROP. To restrict what is shown, one must
> specify something for both. If either defaults, everything is shown,
> not matter how the other is set. This means that you can never show,
> say, the entries for IF's 5-7 without getting IF 1 too because NCOUNT
> must be set and it starts at 1. If you just simply want to restrict the
> size of the print with NCOUNT, you must also specify non-default values
> for BDROP and/or EDROP or you still get everything.
>
> I suggest that, if one parameter is specified, that the other not take
> the default. If both are specified, then go ahead and conform to both
> requests as it does now (I can see reasons for that).
>
> While at it, there is an unfortunate interaction with DOFLAG between
> CALIB and PRTAB. A value good for one is not good for the other and I
> keep tripping over it. PRTAB aborts with DOFLAG set to reasonable CALIB
> values (>1).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig
>
I did more or less what you ask - tomorrow should fix things.
Eric Greisen
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