Testing AIPS++  Detailed Log

April 11, 2000:  Tim Cornwell handed me the CD-ROM with enclosed 
instructions and I'm trying to install it on my Compaq Presario 1690
notebook.

./INSTALL
./INSTALL: Permission denied. 

Note that TTT> is my symbol for TTTrouble!

TTT> had to su root and
# mount -o exec /mnt/cdrom 
before I could run ./INSTALL

during installation:
  tar: Cannot add file docs: No such file or directory
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
  find: docs: No such file or directory
  ./INSTALL: /home/gtaylor/aips++/docs/.aips++.install: No such file or directory
   Warning: /usr/local/aips++/linux does not exist.    

According to e-mail from Tim I need to do the following:
After installation:

1. Had to:

   a_root=/home/aips++/release
   . ${a_root}/aipsinit.sh

2. On starting, PGPLOT_FONT, PGPLOT_DIR were set to the
previous values from the cdrom tests. Had to set by hand:

   export PGPLOT_FONT
   PGPLOT_FONT=/home/aips++/release/linux/grfont.dat     

except that I'm running the tcsh so commands are slightly different.
And note that aips++ took up 1140 MB of disk (full install)

Now launching aips++...

121 seconds later ... Success!

Started help in Netscape.  Very good.
Loaded multi-source C-band UVFITS file and converted it to a ms.

Now trying to use visplot to look at the data.

TTT> I hit PLOT but Nothing much happens.

TTT> I get illegal channel selection

selected polarizations: [RR, RL, LR, LL]
No channel specified
Reading by time
No iteration: need axes for first plot only
Plotted 1 pages

TTT> no plot shows up.

Called in Tim and he got the test pgplotter to work by calling it
from the command line in glish.

I tried to do a visibility plot but my machine was tooo slooooww.
Could be this is due to lack of memory (only 64 MB on board).

TTT> The logger window comes up with a normal size and then 
resizes itself down to very small.  This is not good.

TTT> I tried 'quit' from glish.  Big mistake everything just hung.
Could we make it so that quit is the same as exit?

--- end of testing on April 11.   
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