[daip] AIPS on windows

[Eric Greisen]

On 06/11/2019 09:41 AM, Chen, Diana wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> 
> I'm planning to install today and I had some more questions.
> 
> 
> 1.If tapes drives are no longer being used, the tape drive menu section 
> in the install wizard will be skipped, right?
> 
> 
> 2. Does NRAO have sample interferometric data to test the AIPS software?
> 
> 
> 3.After installation, what do you estimate the general time period to 
> learn how to use the AIPS software be? I'm the only person learning and 
> using AIPS, and I wanted to be realistic about my goals.

There are several pages in the install for which the default behavior is 
fine, including tapes.

The aips web page www.aips.nrao.edu refers to 2 VLBI tutorials.  They 
affor downloadable data and a step by step set of instructions.  Of 
course, VLBI data are harder to process than VLA data.  You may find any 
sort of data you like from archive.nrao.edu - all VLA data older than a 
year is available to anyone.

3. I have no idea - that would depend on the person, how much time 
he/she can spend, etc.  AIPS is so large by now that even I do not 
remember the names of everything or probably even their existence.
The verb apropos is very useful.

Eric