[daip] Fwd: Re: AIPS on windows

[Eric Greisen]

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Subject: Re: AIPS on windows
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:04:18 -0600
From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
To: Chen, Diana <diana.chen at gtri.gatech.edu>

On 06/06/2019 09:49 AM, Chen, Diana wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> My name is Diandian(Diana) Chen and I am a research scientist at Georgia 
> Tech.
> 
> I'm looking to run AIPS software on my computer, and I have a some  
> general questions.
> 
> 1.  I have a windows laptop. I was thinking of setting up a virtual 
> linux machine and running the AIPS software. Do you recommend this?
> 
> 2.I noticed that AIPS has a cookbook. Is this the best source of 
> information for figuring out how everything works? I am completely new 
> to this software and the types of data it uses.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Diana
> 

I am unaware of anyone running AIPS in this fashion.  AIPS is vanilla 
enough that it should work if the Linux emulation is good enough.  There 
are laptops here that can boot into windows or into a true Linux and 
they run AIPS just fine.

Yes the CookBook is a fine place to start.  Chapter 1 is a short 
introduction.  Chapters 2 and 3 give the basics.  AIPS is now almost 40 
years old so some of what we (still) support is almost certainly not 
relevant (e.g. magnetic tapes).  But do not let that age fool you - we 
are still changing and improving things even if the man power is now 
down to just me with lots of people to talk to.

Eric Greisen