[daip] Missing adverb in VLBARUN

[egreisen]

On 2021-01-01 03:52, Juan Carlos Algaba via Daip wrote:
> Dear Designated AIP,
> 
> Happy new year! After some time without using AIPS, I decided to
> download some VLBA archival data and play with it a bit. I tried to
> use some of the scripting methods, and went for a first fresh call of
> VLBAUTIL after which I checked the inputs of VLBARUN, encountering
> however the following missing adverb message:
> 
>> inp vlbarun
> AIPS 1: VLBARUN: Applies amplitude and phase calibration to VLBA data
> !
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1:
> AIPS 1:           To run this procedure you MUST type RUN VLBAUTIL and
> AIPS 1:           RUN VLBARUN first to define the procedures in AIPS.
> AIPS 1:
> AIPS 1:                                    -- Load the data from disk
> --
> AIPS 1: DATAIN     *all ' '                Disk file name
> AIPS 1: DOUVCOMP     -1                    Compress data? Use -1, 0 or
> 1
> AIPS 1: OUTNAME    ' '                     File name (name)
> AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Working disk with ample
> space
> AIPS 1:                                    -- OR existing file --
> AIPS 1: INNAME     ' '                     Input file name
> AIPS 1: INCLASS    ' '                     Input file class
> AIPS 1: INSEQ         0                    Input file sequence number
> AIPS 1: INDISK        0                    Disk number for input file
> AIPS 1:
> -----------------------------
> AIPS 1: OPTYPE     ' '                     For CONT, PSEU or SPEC
> (LINE)
> AIPS 1:
> -----------------------------
> AIPS 1: CLINT         0                    CL table interval in
> minutes.
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       CHREFANT
> 
> Of course the first thing I tried was to do some RESTORE 0 and
> COMPRESS, which didn't solve the problem. I kleenex-ed and restarted
> AIPS. getting VLBAUTIL (which loads perfectly) and INP VLBARUN still
> gives the same issue. I found an old dAIP topic about a similar
> situation here:
> https://listmgr.nrao.edu/pipermail/daip/2003-November/005033.html
> So I tried rescuing my do.daily_localhost and did some MNJ and RUN
> POPSGN. I still found the same missing adverb signal.
> 
> Final check, I installed the new 31DEC21 version of AIPS making sure
> about the ./AIPSRC file and taking into consideration the changes in
> AIPSPATH.SH and AIPSPATH.CSH, as advised for installations with a
> previous version already in the system. I am running a macOS High
> Sierra 10.13.6 and I did not forget to do the additional steps for the
> system (services, fix_aips_macos.sh, sysctl kern.sysv). AIPS seems to
> be working great, but still, the same missing adverb problem remains
> in VLBARUN. This issue does not happen in any other procedure of
> VLBAUTIL.
> 
> Is there anything that I am missing out here? Any thoughts from your
> side?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
>        Juan Carlos

You need to first RUN VLBAUTIL and the RUN VLBARUN.  After that all
adverbs should be known.

Eric Greisen