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The introduction course to astronomical software contains a chapter on AIPS
Our installation usually has the current development version of aips (31DECyy with yy the last two digets of the current year) as TST
version, the stabel release (last year's version) as NEW
and the version from before that time as OLD
.
AIPS can be started by running the command aips
. There is a small deviation from a standard AIPS setup here:
$FITS
is set, its value is preserved, in stead of pointing to a location in $AIPS_ROOT
which should then be writable by all users./data1/DA00
and the variable $DA00
is made to point there.
So please be aware that if you bypass our startup script to call STARTAIPS.SH
directly, you will loose this setup, and all tasks will run very slow, because all DA00
files will live on a disk on a central server.
Users should also have a file .dadevs
listing their personal data areas. We have a script called aipsdisk-setup
that can create such a file, by default using all local disks.
See also: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cook.html for more general information on the AIPS software.
In addition to the main AIPS software, we also offer ParselTongue