[daip] FILLM question and updates

[Emmanuel Momjian]

Thanks Eric.

While FILLM recognized the file name without adding a number, it went 
into some weird loop and kept re-loading and adding the data over and 
over onto the same AIPS file.

You can see what happened by checking the data on ararat.

user ID 100
Disk /DATA/ARARAT_1
catalog: 355
name:  19851206.LINE.5

FILLM inputs were:
AIPS 1: FILLM     Task to read a VLA archive tape
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INTAPE        1                    Tape drive number
AIPS 1: DATAIN     'GM036:AB365_1_46405.30 Non-blank: disk file name
AIPS 1:            286_46405.79730.exp'
AIPS 1: NFILES        0                    Number of files to advance
AIPS 1:                                    Also applies to ON-LINE!
AIPS 1: BAND       ' '                     Freq. band:
AIPS 1:                                      (4,P,L,S,C,X,U,K,A,Q)
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code
AIPS 1: VLAOBS     ' '                     VLA obs. pgm. name ('AZ99')
AIPS 1: VLAMODE    ' '                     VLA obs. mode (' '=any)
AIPS 1: REFDATE    ' '                     Reference date. 'yyyymmdd'
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Timerange selected
AIPS 1: BCHAN         0                    First spectral channel
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest spectral channel
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    ' '                     Output UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       2                    Output UV file disk unit #.
AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP     -1                    1 (T) => compressed data
AIPS 1: DOCONCAT     -1                    1 (T) => append data to old
AIPS 1: NCOUNT        0                    Number of files to read
AIPS 1: DOWEIGHT      1                    Use nominal sensitivity to
AIPS 1: DOACOR        0                    Load autocorrelation data?
AIPS 1: CPARM      *all 0                  User options.
AIPS 1: DPARM      *all 0                  Selection by Frequency
AIPS 1: BPARM      *all 0                  Opacity and Gain curve
AIPS 1: CALIN      *all ' '                Antenna gains file

the 'GM036' refers to /lustre/aoc/sciops/emomjian/test/

EM

On 4/20/21 10:17 AM, egreisen wrote:
> On 2021-04-19 23:25, Emmanuel Momjian wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> 1) Is there a way for FILLM to not add a number at the end of a file
>> when reading from disk? For instance, when I have a file on disk
>> called
>>
>> AB365_1_46405.30286_46405.79730.exp
>>
>> it keeps expecting to see AB365_1_46405.30286_46405.79730.exp1 (note
>> the 1 at the end) and quits.
>>
>>
>> If there is nothing in FILLM for this now (unless I missed something),
>> could we consider re-wiring nfiles=-1 to do this (i.e., to make FILLM
>> behave like FITLD or BDF2AIPS and not add a number to the file name in
>> DATAIN and expect it on disk)? nfiles=-1 in FILLM now is reserved for
>> the old online system, which is of course not applicable now.
>> Basically I am suggesting that with nfiles=-1 it could read the file
>> on disk as it is named, while with nfiles=0 and higher it behaves as
>> it is now.
>>
>>
>> 2) Other things I noticed in the FILLM help file, which are:
>>
>>
>>              To use the VLA archive directly, contact NRAO at
>> analysts at nrao.edu.
>>              The web has tools to review the contents of the archive
>> http://www.vla.nrao.edu/astro/archive/vladb/
>>              and to request data from the archive
>> http://www.vla.nrao.edu/astro/archive/archreq/
>>
>>
>> I'd ask that we remove analysts at nrao.edu since we are moving away from
>> that email alias, and now only the VLBA DAs use that email address
>> anyway. We can point the user to the NRAO helpdesk instead
>> (https://science.nrao.edu/observing/helpdesk) or remove that line
>> altogether.
>>
>> Also, the web pages above:
>> http://www.vla.nrao.edu/astro/archive/vladb/
>> http://www.vla.nrao.edu/astro/archive/archreq/
>>
>>
>> are from the old domain, and both are gone.
>>
>> If you wish to have a link to the NRAO archive, perhaps we can use:
>> https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/archive/index
>>
>> Thanks,
>> EM
>
>
> I have changed the task to open DATAIN as specified and if that fails 
> to then
> append the file number and try again.  I also made the changes you 
> suggest
> for the help file (and to document the DATAIN usage).
>
> Try it now please.
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric