[daip] [!9153]: AIPS - AIPS: is it possible to avoid creating an IMAGR IBMxxx cube, to save space?

[Eric Greisen]

Eric Greisen updated #9153
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       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen (was: -- Unassigned --)
              Status: Closed (was: Open)
                 Due: - Cleared - (was: 18 October 2016 06:52 PM)

AIPS: is it possible to avoid creating an IMAGR IBMxxx cube, to save space?
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           Ticket ID: 9153
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/9153
           Full Name: Robert Gray
               Email: roberthansengray at gmail.com
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Reduction
       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen
                Type: Issue
              Status: Closed
            Priority: Default
      Template Group: Default
             Created: 14 October 2016 06:52 PM
             Updated: 14 October 2016 07:20 PM



I agree that this is a problem.  Unfortunately, the code writes the beam and then reads it
when needed so the file must exist.  For such large images, consider IMAGRPRM(10) which
will let you have a quite adequate beam without being quite so large.

You generally run from scripts, so I suggest that you add a delete of the beam right after
IMAGR.

Eric Greisen




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