[evlatests] EVLA Operations Tests

[Bryan Butler]

ahhh, OK.

pointing files shouldn't be created by hand in this way.  obs2script 
doesn't know when to start the file, and gets confused.

you should use the scripts i created specially for this.  there are two 
versions: 1 - /home/mchost/evla/bin/evlapointbase - this one assumes you 
are using one of the two files: sysptgx or sysptgc only; 2 - 
/home/mchost/evla/bin/kenpointbase - this one allows you to specify any 
pointing or baselines file, but you have to give it the fully specified 
name (full path name) for both input and output files.

i sent out instructions on the first one a month or so ago.  i guess 
they didn't propagate in the right way :/...  the second was created at 
ken's request last friday.

	-bryan


On 8/22/05 15:58, Rich Moeser wrote:
> Bryan Butler wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 8/22/05 15:01, Pat Van Buskirk wrote:
>>
>>> We created a new obs file from our two-hour pointing file and attempted
>>> to convert it with obs2script. Our obs file had a blank line at the end
>>> of the file which caused a "file not found" error. We eliminated the
>>> blank line from the obs file and successfully converted and executed the
>>> file. Could obs2script ignore blank lines, perhaps?
>>
>>
>>
>> yes, it could be taught to do that.
>>
>>> Obs2script also converted the date incorrectly, setting the julian date
>>> one day earlier than current. Did we do something wrong, or is this a 
>>> bug?
>>
>>
>>
>> that shouldn't happen.  please send me the details on just how the 
>> file was created - what scripts were run, what inputs were used, 
>> etc..., and i'll try to figure out what went wrong.  also, if you 
>> could send me the actual file that was created (or a pointer to it, 
>> anyway), that had the wrong days in it, that would help in making sure 
>> i'm recreating just what happened.
> 
> 
> 
> The original file we started with was 
> /home/mchost/evla/scripts/operations/sysptx2h.obs. Ryan hand-edited this 
> file and created the more compact file 
> /home/mchost/evla/scripts/operations/sysptrev.obs.
> We ran obs2script against this file which created the file 
> /home/mchost/evla/scripts/astronomy/sysptrev.evla.
> 
> This file contained a 'startTime=53603.38011835'. When we ran it through 
> the executor with this time it completed immediately. We then changed 
> the time day to '53604' and it worked.
> 
> --Rich