[AIPS] Patches to AIPS 31DEC24 [NRAO]

You will find a summary of patches made to 31DEC24 here.

With previous releases, we did not change the frozen release tar ball; user sites were required to download the text files and do any compilations themselves. But, beginning with 31DEC04, we provide binary releases for which user sites are not required to have compilers. Therefore, we have reversed our policy. These patches have been applied to the official code of 31DEC24 and may be downloaded using a 31DEC24 "Midnight Job". Any tarball taken after the change date listed below will already have the patches applied.

The following is a summary list of the patches in this release. To patch your version of AIPS, run a "MNJ" ($HOME/do_daily.hostname).

  1. TVSPX was given new options and corrected for handling zoom and large images. 2025-01-23
  2. QBEAM was corrected for number of adverbs and its handling of CUTOFF. 2025-01-28
  3. AU8A (EXTLIST verb) was corrected for its handling of 30-value adverbs in PLOTR. 2025-01-28
  4. TECOR was changed to issue a warning about leaving the reliable model behind (date > 2025.0) only once. 2025-01-19
  5. TEPLT was changed to use finer plot range limits on DIFF. 2025-01-19
  6. ZACTV9.C had a C error preventing compilation on the latest compilers. 2025-01-19
  7. FITTP and FITAB were changed to write Slice (SL) files as pseudo-FITS tables. FITLD, UVLOD, and IMLOD were changed to read them back in. 2025-03-06
  8. SYPRT was corrected to handle page size limitations and to loop over IFs, polarizations, and data types properly. 2025-13-11
  9. POSSM had issues with frequency labeling when the IFs were not all contiguous. 2025-03-12
  10. PLRFI, VBRFI, VLBRF did not make plot files properly with more than one subplot per page. 2025-03-18
  11. PRTSY did not sort the SY table correctly. 2025-03-19
  12. SGDESTR left a file open, blocking many functions in AIPS. 2025-03-19
  13. FITAB and FITTP attempted to write the history file as a table amking an error message. 2025-03-26
  14. New OFMs have been added for use in OFMGET. 2025-04-03
  15. SPFLG, FTFLG wrote incorrect flags to the flag table when doing clip in subimages. 2025-04-23
  16. NOIFS output one too many channels and set the reference channel one too high. 2025-05-05
  17. LISTR did not handle arrays with more than 50 antennas well. Fixed both LIST and MATX listings. 2025-05-07
  18. 2025-??-??
Eric W. Greisen