[daip] Bug in MULIF

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 24 12:15:51 EDT 2016


On 08/24/2016 09:25 AM, Walter Alef wrote:
> Hi Aimy, Eric,
>
> I think I found a bug in MULIF.FOR line 404.
> ...
>           GO TO 985
>           END IF
>        CALL UVDFND (UVOUT, 4, 'FREQ', INDXF, IERR)
>        IF (IERR.NE.0) THEN
>           MSGTXT = 'PROBLEM WITH OUTPUT FREQ AXIS'
>           GO TO 985
> ...
>
> I try to add 4 empty IFs to a data set of 4 IFs (correlator issue). The 4 IFs
> should be IFs # 5-8. The error is:
>
> FRONTE> MULIF1: Task MULIF  (release of 31DEC16) begins
> FRONTE> MULIF1: Create C161A3      .MULIF .   1 (UV)  on disk  1  cno    4
> FRONTE> MULIF1: Copied SU file from vol/cno/vers  1    3   1 to  1    4   1
> FRONTE> MULIF1: Copied AN file from vol/cno/vers  1    3   1 to  1    4   1
> FRONTE> MULIF1: UVDFND: UNKNOWN TYPE CODE:     4
> FRONTE> MULIF1: PROBLEM WITH OUTPUT FREQ AXIS
> FRONTE> MULIF1: ERROR PATCHING FQ TABLE FOR Output UV data
> FRONTE> MULIF1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> FRONTE> MULIF1: frontend 31DEC16 TST: Cpu=      7.3  Real=      8  IO=
> 564
>
> The parameter "4" to UVDFND is illegal. I think it should be "2" instead.
> Could you please check this?
>
> P.S.: Sorry for not using the new system. I am to old for all this logging in
> and ticketing. :-(
>
The new system is often a nuisance and we hooked it into daip so we get 
the best of both worlds.  Don't worry about the helpdesk business.

And thanks for this - how the author thought it worked is beyond me.  It 
will be fixed tomorrow morning.

Eric



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