[daip] FILLM question and updates

[Emmanuel Momjian]

and to add/clarify: I had to kill the AIPS session and the terminal to 
stop the "loop".

On 4/20/21 10:32 AM, Emmanuel Momjian wrote:
> 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