[daip] AIPS cannot see SN-tables

[Eric Greisen]

On 06/30/2015 03:33 AM, Franz Kirsten wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> in an attempt to speed up my data processing I am using ParselTongue to
> parallelise FRING. The way I do this is that I run multiple instances of
> FRING on the same data but each instance does a separate source and/or
> scan (eventually, I'd like to just merge all the resulting SN-tables).
> Things run smoothly and the SN-tables are being written out to disk. The
> trouble however is, that AIPS cannot see all of the new SN-tables but
> only the lowest one or two. The tables do exist though as I can see them
> in my data areas (e.g. SND04M00A.01G;). While running things in parallel
> ParselTongue seems to execute a clrstat-command at some point -- I fear
> that this actually prevents some info about the total number of existing
> SN-tables to be written to the header of the file. Can you think of a
> way to let AIPS know about these SN-tables? I tried to rebuild my
> catalogue with RUN RECAT, hoping it might pick up all the files related
> to the particular catalogue entry and user number but without success.
>
> Many thanks for any insights/help you could give me!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Franz

I have written a verb REVERSN which will appear in AIPS after tomorrow's 
MNJ (after 10pm Mountain Daylight tonight).  This will detect the 
highest version in specific extensions or all possible extensions and 
correct the header.

Eric Greisen