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It MUST be typed as follows: 1 blank, 4 digits, a period, two blanks, then the Month, day, comma, year, some space, a title, some more space, your name. *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** Changes while 31DEC25 is TST *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** 16140. December 2, 2024 Code rollover Eric Changed $APLSUB/GETRLS.FOR. $INSUNIX/INSTEP1, $SYSPERL/install.pl, $SYSPERL/update.pl, $SYSPERL/ZXHLP2.PL, $SYSPERL/LaCook.PL, $sysperl/aipshelp, $UPDUNIX/UPDCONTROL, $SYSUNIX/AIPSPATH.CSH, $SYSUNIX/AIPSPATH.SH $SYSUNIX/AIPSPATH1.CSH, $SYSUNIX/AIPSPATH1.SH to make 31DEC25 instead of 31DEC24 - also fix dates in install.pl and update.pl. Moved nowhere. 16141. December 6, 2024 PBEAM Eric Added code to determine the beam "half power" point (which is at sqrt(0.5) in voltage) and then report the FWHM major and minor axes. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16142. December 6, 2024 QBEAM Eric NEW TASK: PBEAM without the fitting and so suitable for beam cuts in Q, U, and V. Makes contour and IRING plots and can write out smoothed images. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16143. December 6, 2024 ATLOD Eric I changed ATLOD to call linear polarizations V and H, but of course the data are still called X and Y. Added code so that either will work. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16144. December 6, 2024 DOCALIB Eric DOCAL cannot be applied to multiple subarrays by most tasks. SPLIT and SPLAT do have loops over subarray. Added a line to UVGET's error message about this to suggest their use. Moved nowhere. 16145. December 9, 2024 SYSETUP Eric Changed SYSETUP so that the default account is aipssrc. The account aipsmgr is being downgraded here. Moved nowhere. 16146. December 11, 2024 Pulse cals Eric Changed call sequence of PCFITR so that the antenna being fit can appear in the fit results messages. Improved the formats in PCFIT including reducing the number of progress messages when SOLINT > 0. Corrected handling of last scan (which got doubled with the 2nd solution having only 1 record). Changed PCFITR call sequence in PCASS, PCRMS, BPEDIT, PCFLG, and PCPLT. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16147. December 11, 2024 AIPS Memo 123 Eric Added section describing the data (mostly phase) since the initial version described the new tasks but did not say enough about the data. Moved everywhere in $AIPSPUBL. 16148. December 16. 2024 CLCAL Eric Increased the number of times allowed in time smoothing to 100000 from 30000. This will allow 1 second for 24 hours. Moved nowhere. 16149. December 30, 2024 EVLA antennas Eric Copied the EVLA antenna location corrections file to $AIPSTARS/EVLA.ant.2024 and made a dummy file for the VLA 2025. The latter is needed by VLANT when run on old VLA data. Moved everywhere effectively. 16150. January 17, 2025 TVSPX Eric Added functions CLEAR LIST and CHAR MULT to the main menu, IMSTAT to the image menu, and, QUIT to the redo menu. Corrected zoom handling and management of NEXT WINDOW (for large images). Added display of full and robust statistics of the images. The help and run-time help files were changed for the new options and to improve the wording. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16151. January 17, 2025 LISPX Eric NEW TASK: This task fits spectral index to data in a text file. It allows TV interaction to try to improve the fits. It has a help file and a run-time help file. Moved nowhere. 16152. January 16, 2025 SPXMD Eric NEW TASK. Add "sources" to a new or existing image cube with spectral index and curvature. Moved nowhere. 16153. January 23, 2025 LISPX, TVSPX Eric LISPX changed to: a. Allow up to 32768 data points b. To read a third data column if present (rms or ?) c. In REDO added menu options CHAN RANGE to display only some of the channels and RESET CHANS to go back to displaying all of them d. To include the data points and the fit value in the output text file e. Update help and run-time help files TVSPX changed as c and e above. Changed TVVEC to include operations that erase the line. This caused the meaning of one of the arguments to change but none of the tasks that use TVVEC are affected. Moved nowhere. 16154. January 23, 2025 PLOTR Eric Added adverb DOEBAR. If > 0, this indicates that there is a third data column before the plot type code column. If > 1, requests that error bars be plotted, scaled by a factor DOEBAR-1. Moved nowhere. 16155. January 24, 2025 AIPS Memo 126 Eric New Memo to describe TVSPX, LISPX, and SPXMD. TEX, PS.gz, and PDF forms. Moved everywhere in $AIPSPUBL. 16156. January 24, 2025 VLBAUTIL, VLBARUN Eric Added BPSOLINT and DOBAND to VLBARUN procedure. This is to allow time-dependent bandpass corrections. This then forces changes to VLBAUTIL procedurtes VLBABPSS (SOLINT) and DOBAND in VLBAAMP, VLBAMPCL, VLBAPCOR, VLBAFRNG, VLBAKRNG, VLBAFRGP, and VLBAKRGP. All of these force DOBAND to be at least 1 if there is a BP table or 0 if there is not. Help files for all these are changed. Moved nowhere. 16157. January 24, 2025 LISPX, TVSPX Eric In the REDO code, the axis labeling was incorrect when a channel range was selected. Both tasks also needed RQUICK to be set false. Changed the LISPX output file slightly so that it could be used as an LISPC iput file. Moved nowhere. 16158. January 27, 2025 Adverb help files Eric New tasks LISPX, SPXMD, and QBEAM needed listing in their adverb help files. Also the change to PLOTR and VLBAUTIL procs needed adding. Changed OUTFILE FLUX REFREQ OPTYPE DPARM CPARM INNAME INCLASS INSEQ INDISK OUTNAME OUTCLASS OUTSEQ OUTDISK BLC TRC FACTOR INLIST COORDINA IMSIZE CELLSIZE APARM FPARM RPARM VPARM DOFIT DOEBAR RADIUS CUTOFF DOPLOT DOTV GRCHAN BADDISK DOBAND SOLINT Moved nowhere. 16159. January 28, 2025 QBEAM Eric Corrected number of adverbs and fixed CUTOFF to work properly. Changed plot code to 80, set plot type in DOPLOT for EXTLIST. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16160. January 28, 2025 PLGET, EXTLIST Eric Add plot code 80 for QBEAM. Set correct number parameters for QBEAM and PLOTR in AU2A and AU8A. Add code for QBEAM in AU8A. Add code for DOEBAR in PLOTR section of AU8A and correct handling of the 30-value adverbs. Move AU8A corrections only to 31DEC24. 16161. January 30, 2025 Obsolete help files Eric These help files should have their first category OBSOLETE so that list making tasks can like ADVHLP can ignore them. Similarly the SHOPH script should list obsolete only in ZZOBSOLETE. Changed help files to force this since putbck will not accept TASK, PROC, RUN, etc as legal secondary words. Changed CLIPM, CROSSPOL, DDT, DDTSIZE, MX, PHCLN, POLSN, PSEUDO, SETROAM, SNCUT, VLBACPOL, XVSS, MAPDIF, HORUS, and OFFROAM help files. The TPMON help had OBSOLETE removed; it still works although it is not used automatically and is rather dangerous. Moved nowhere. 16162. January 30, 2025 Help files Eric Changed tasks with mis-spelled adverbs CLVLB Fixed spelling of ANTENNAS CONFI Fixed spelling of CELLSIZE Changed adverb helps listing tasks, verbs, procs taht use them ANTENNAS Added PRRFI, VHDIF, VHMOD, CLVLB; droped ANTNUM APARM Added VLBATECR, OFUDG; dropped HLPSCIMG, HLPSCMAP, VLBACRPL ARRAY1 Added LAYER ARRAY2 Added FINDR, SDTUV BADDISK Added VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, VLBAWIDE, dropped DDT, VLBACPOL BAND Drop VLBAARCH BASELINE Add VHMOD, drop ANTAB, VLBACPOL, VLBACRPL BCHAN Add VHDIF, VHMOD BCOUNT Add PRRFI BIF Add VHDIF, VHMOD, drop ANCAL BLC Drop BLCAL, BLCHN BLOCKING Correct missing periods BLVER Add VHDIF, VHMOD BMAJ Drop IMMOD, MODIM, UVMOD; add TDSETP3, TDSTEP5 BMIN Drop IMMOD, MODIM, UVMOD; add TDSETP3, TDSTEP5 BOX Drop UTESS, VTESS; add OFUDG BOXFILE Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 BPA Drop IMMOD, MODIM, UVMOD; add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 BPARM Add OFUDG BPVER Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, VHCALIB CALCODE Add VHDIF, VHMOD CALSOUR Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHCALIB, drop VLBACPOL CELLSIZE Add CONFI, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE CHANNEL Drop MAPPR CHINC Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VLBARUN, VLBAFRGP, VLBAFRNG, VLBAMPCL, VLBAPCOR CHREFANT Add VLBAWIDE CLBOX Add Y2KSAVE CLCORPRM Add VHDIF CLINT Add VLBAWIDE CMETHOD Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 COLORS Drop OFFROAM Moved nowhere. 16163. January 16163. January 31, 2025 more adverb help Eric Changed verb, task, proc helps: TIMDEST Made it obsolete Changed adverb helps: DATAIN Add VLBAWIDE DDISK Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE DECIMAL Correct spellin of CODECIML DECSHIFT Add TDSTEPs DO3DIMAG Add TDSTEP3 DOACOR Add VHMOD DOAPPLY Add VHDIF DOBAND Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, VHCALIBM VLBARUN, VLBAWIDE DOBLANK Add VLACLCAL DOCALIB Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, VLBARFI, VLBAWIDE; drop ACCOR DOCLIP Add SOUSP, VLBAWIDE DOCRT Drop MAXTAB DOEOT Drop BAKTP DOFLAG Add VLBAWIDE DOIFS Add PLRFI. DOINVERS Add VHDIF. DOKEEP drop 2nd OOCAL. Add RLDIF, VHDIF, XYDIF. DOPLOT add VLBARUN, VLBAMPHC, VLBAWIDE DOPOL drop PCAL, add VHDIF, VHMOD DOPRINT Add INP, INPUTS, VHDIF, VLBAIT, TVHELIX, VLACALIB, VLACLCAL DOSPIX Add FTARS DOTABLE Add TECOR DOTV Add TDSTEPs DOUVCOMP Add Y2KSAVE DPARM Drop VLBACPOL, BLAVG; add VLBAWIDE ECHAN Add VHDIF, VHMOD ECOUNT Add PRRFI EDGSKP Add Y2KSAVE EFACTOR Add TVSAD EIF Add VHDIF, VHMOD ELEVLIM Add VLBAWIDE EOPSFILE Add VLBAWIDE Moved nowhere. 16164. February 3, 2025 Adverb helps Eric Changed: IBLED Spelling of IN3VERS UVFIT Spelling of INVERS UVGIT Spelling of INVERS Continuing FACTOR Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 FGAUSS Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 FLAGVER Drop VLBACPOL, add VHCAL, VHMOD, VHDIF, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB FLDSIZE Drop MAPPR, Add TDSETP3, TDSTEP5 FLUX Drop ANCAL, IMFIT, JMFIT, SAD, TVSAD; Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE FORMAT Add VLBAARCH FQCENTER Add many FQTOL Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 FREQID Add VHDIF, VHMOD GAIN Add STEER, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 GAINUSE Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB; Drop VLBACPOL GMAX Drop SET1DG GPOS Drop SET1DG GRCHAN Add PLRFI GUARD Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 GWIDTH Drop SET1DG I Add TKBOX, TKNBOXS ICHANSEL Add RLDIF, VHDIF, XYDIF IMSIZE Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE IN2CLASS Add VHCAL, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN2DISK Add VHCAL, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, Y2KSAVE, LINIMAGE IN2NAME Add VHCAL, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN2SEQ Add VHCAL, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, STUFFR IN3CLASS Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN3DISK Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN3NAME Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN3SEQ Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN3VERS Drop extra stuff after proper end IN4CLASS Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN4DISK Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN4NAME Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN4SEQ Add VHCAL, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB IN5DISK Add M5CAT, U5CAT INCLASS Drop VLBACPOL, POLSN; Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, WXLOD, TDSCANS, TDSSCAN, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB INDISK Drop VLARUN, VLBACPOL, POLSN; Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, WXLOD, TDSCANS, TDSSCAN, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, Y2KSAVE, CLNUP INEXT Drop SL2PL, SLFIT INFILE Correct VBLIN to VLBIN, add PRRFI, QBEAM INNAME Drop VLBACPOL, POLSN; Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, WXLOD, TDSCANS, TDSSCAN, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB, Y2KSAVE INSEQ Drop VLBACPOL, POLSN; Add VHCAL, VHDIF, VHMOD, WXLOD, TDSCANS, TDSSCAN, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VHCALIB INTAPE Add Y2KSAVE INTEXT Add WXLOD, VLBAWIDE INTPARM Add VHDIF INVERS Drop POLSN; Add BPEPL, BPPLT IOTAPE Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE J Add TKNBOXS KEYSTRNG Add SGUGET KEYVALUE Drop CCFND, PRTCC; fix VLBIN MAXPIXEL MDISK Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE MINAMPER Correct BPASS typing MINPATCH Drop MAPPR, Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE MINPHSER Correct BPASS typing NBOXES Add Y2KSAVE NCHAV Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 NCOMP Drop IMSCAL, Add Y2KSAVE NFIELD Drop MAPPR, Add TDSTEP3 NGAUSS Drop SET1DG, Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 NITER Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 NMAPS Add TDSTEP5 NOISE Add Y2KSAVE NORMALIZ Add IMSCAL, OOCAL NPIECE Add Y2KSAVE NPLOTS Add VLBRF OBJECT Drop FETCH OBOXFILE Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 ONEBEAM Change TDEPEND to TDSTEP3 OPCODE Drop VLBACPOL, POLSN; Add CLPLT, VHMOD OPTYPE Add BSMOD ORDER Add FIXFR OTFMODE Add HOLOG OUT2CLAS Add CMPLX OUT2DISK Add CMPLX OUT2NAME Add CMPLX OUTCLASS Add CMPLX, VHCAL, VHMOD; Drop RMTFC OUTDISK Add CMPLX, VHCAL, VHMOD; Drop RMTFC, MX, VLBACPOL Moved nowhere. 16165. February 4, 2025 help files Eric Changed adverb files: FGPRT Correct one-liner typo OPTELL Added several tasks that can use TELL. Changed typing so that this help does not trigger many messages in ADVCHK. OUTFILE Add PRRFI, VLBAWIDE OUTNAME Drop RMTFC, Add CMPLX, VHCAL, VHMOD, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, VLBAWIDE OUTPRINT Add FGPRT, SYPRT, TADIF, VHDIF, Y2KSAVE OUTSEQ Drop RMTFC, Add CMPLX, VHCAL, VHMOD, TDSTEP5 OUTTAPE Add Y2KSAVE OUTTEXT Add VLBAWIDE OUTVERS Drop POLSN OVERLAP Add TDSTEP3 PBPARM Correct typing PDVER Drop PCAL, Add VHDIF, VHMOD PRTASK Add VLBAWIDE, VLBARFI PRTLEV Add TDSCANS, TDSSCAN, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 QCREATE Add GO, DOOSRO, PIPEAIPS QUAL Drop PROFL, Add VHMOD QUANTIZE Add Y2KSAVE RASHIFT Add TDSTEOP3, TDSTEP5 REFANT Drop VLBACPOL REMHOST Add AIPSC REWEIGHT correct DBCON RGBLEVS Add CIRCLEVS, FLAMLEVS, RAINLEVS, STEPLEVS RMSLIMIT Add FTARS ROBUST Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE ROTATE Add VHMOD, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE SCALR1 Add Y2KSAVE SCALR2 Add Y2KSAVE SCALR3 Add Y2KSAVE SEARCH Correct spelling OOFRING SELBAND Add VHDIF, VHMOD SELFREQ Add VHDIF, VHMOD SHIFT Add Y2KSAVE SMOOTH Add VHDIF, VHMOD SOLINT Drop VLBACPOL, FLGIT, UVMLN; Add RLDIF, VHDIF, XYDIF, VHCALIB SOLTYPE Add VHCALIB SOURCES Add VHMOD STOKES Drop MAPPR, LPCAL, UVFIL; Add VLBRF STRC3 Add PRTTP SUBARRAY Drop VLBACPOL, INDXR, VLABP; Add VLA, VHDIF, VHMOD SYSOUT Add VLBAWIDE TASK Add ABORTASK, TELL TCODE Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE TDISK Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE, VLBDDT TECRFILE Add VLBAWIDE TECRTYPE Correct ALVAR to ALBUS TIMERANG Drop SCANTIME, VLBACPOL; Add VHDIF, VHMOD TMASK Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE TMODE Add Y2K, Y2KSAVE TNAMF Add Y2KSAVE TRC Drop APCLN, HLPTVHUI, HLPTVRGB, MX, SDCLN TVCHAN Drop OFFROAM TYSMOLEV Add VLBAWIDE UVBOX Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 UVBXFN Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 UVCOPPRM Add UVCOP UVRANGE Drop ACLIP, Add VHDIF, TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 UVSIZE Drop MAPPR, Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 UVTAPER Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE UVWTFN Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 VERSION Add TELL Moved nowhere. 16166. February 5, 2025 helps, VLBAIT Eric Moved the $RUNSYS/VLBAIT.001 $HLPFIL/VLBAIT.HLP to $APLCONTR since it was an unknown script in 2007 when I renamed it from VLBA. Dropped VLBAIT from BADDISK, DATAIN, DOPRINT, OUTCLASS, OUTDISK, OUTNAME, and OUTSEQ. Changed: WEIGHTIT Add RLDLY, SCIMG, SCMAP WGAUSS Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 X Add IMTXT, SPCOR, STARS, CODECIMAL XPARM Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 XTYPE Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5; Drop MAPPR XYRATIO Add PLRFI Y Add STARS, CODECIML YPARM Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 YTYPE Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5 ZEROSP Add TDSTEP3, TDSTEP5, Y2KSAVE DOINVERS Add WTSUM WTSUM Spell DOINVERS IN2VERS Add FRCAL, MFPRT FRCAL Spell IN2VERS MFPRT Spell IN2VERS NGAUSS Add IMMOD IMMOD Spell NGAUSS REFDATE Add BSMOD BSMOD Spell REFDATE SUBARRAY Add TECOR, VLATECR, VLBATECR TECOR Spell SUBARRAY VLATECR Spell SUBARRAY VLBATECR Spell SUBARRAY UVWTFN Add BSMAP BSMAP Spell UVWTFN Moved nowhere. 16167. February 6, 2025 New help files Eric Procedure adverbs should have helps, at least for those procedures used in the modern day. DOOSRO, VLARUN, PIPEAIPS are probably obsolete. Created help files named and for BPASS5 VLBARUN, VLBABPSS BPSOLINT VLBARUN CALTASK VLBARUN MPDIFS Y2KSAVE Y2KFILE Y2KSAVE TERSE Y2K, Y2KSAVE Y2KDISK Y2K, Y2KSAVE Y2KSIZE Y2K, Y2KSAVE BB VLBAWIDE KK VLBAWIDE MAPSHIFT MAPPR OLDVOL READISK PPARM PEELR TIME2 VLBAMPCL TIMETOL MERGECAL TT CLVLB Moved nowhere. 16168. February 6, 2025 Adverb help files Eric Wrote two NEW STAND-ALONE TASKS ADVHLP and ADVCHK and procedure ADVCHK to run them. They check whether adverb help files know about all tasks, verbs, procs, etc that use them. Reveals other issues too. Moved nowhere. 16169. February 6, 2025 DOC files Eric All this help file stuff causes Documentation files to change. Updated TAB completion file $HLPFIL/HLPIT.LIS Dropped VLBAIT from $HLPFIL/LSAPROPO.HLP Revised ABOUT files: ADVERB ANALYSIS CALIBRAT CATALOG FITS GENERAL HARDCOPY IMAGING INFORMAT INTERACT MODELING OBSOLETE POLARIZA POPS PROCEDUR RUN SPECTRAL TASK TV TV-APPL UTILITY UV VERB VLA VLBI Moved nowhere. 16170. February 10, 2025 CookBook Eric Chapters changed: 6 PLOTR, LISPX 7 LISPX, SPXMD 9 VLBARUN C VLBARUN V QBEAM 13 Many ABOUT files I Changed refs J Changed refs 0 Update Table of Contents Recipe - one from C, several to 13. Moved nowhere. 16171. February 10, 2025 SHOPH Eric Added code to $AIPNOT/SHOPH.FOR to change special characters &, #, _, and $ to their escaped form \&, \#, etc. including a second escape if the following character is a blank, i.e. "\&\ ". This should help in type setting Chapter 13. Moved nowhere. 16172. February 11, 2025 CookBook Eric Changed LaCook.PL to look for \bbve as well as \bve. Changed LaCook13.tex to make \bbve be the only command on the line. The \zxhlp addition was failing to detect verbatim mode and so LaCook.PL was adding \zxhlp to things in the verbatim sections. But in those sections the \zxhlp did not actually link to anything. Moved nowhere. 16173. February 10-11, 2025 Help files Eric Changed too many help files to list for lines in the Inputs section longer than 64 characters and for lines in the Help and Explain sections longer than 72 characters. Many more to do. Moved nowhere. 16174. February 12-14, 2025 ADVCNT, help files Eric NEW PROGRAM: $AIPNOT/ADVCNT reads all help files (found in HLPA.LIST) and checks the inputs section for lines longer than 64 and the rest of help for lines longer than 72 (or maximum < 72). Changed way too many help files (473) to bother listing here. Moved nowhere. 16175. February 14, 2025 About files, Chapter 13 Eric All this help file stuff changed a bit in the 1-liners. Changed ADVERB, ANALYSIS, CALIBRAT, TAPE, TASK, TV, UV, VLA, VLBI. Edited the minor changes into $DOCTXT/LaCook13.tex and redid the CookBook. Moved nowhere. 16176. February 15, 2025 TECOR Eric The IGRF model Earth magnetic field is now in uncertain territory (in 2025) and so started issuing messages. The released version of the model has not been updated on the web site so I put in code to issue the warnong 3 times and then be quiet about it. Moved nowhere should go to 31DEC24. 16177. February 18, 2025 VLBARUN Eric Changed the POSSM plot of bandpass to plot each time separately should there be multiple times. Added deleting TE tables on p_restart. Moved nowhere. 16178. February 18, 2025 TECOR Eric Changed the 2025 warning messages to appear only once but in 3 lines to avoid string overflow. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16179. February 18, 2025 CHANGED.23D Eric Discovered that the 31DEC24 CHANGE.DOC somehow was saved as $AIPSPUBL/CHANGED.23D. Corrected this to save 31DEC23 CHANGE.DOC instead. Moved everywhere in $AIPSPUBL. 16180. February 18, 2025 TECOR Eric Absorbed IGRF14 to replace IGRF13. The difference in B fields is essentially <~ 0.5 milli Gauss in each coordinate for a VLBA data set. I will leave IGRF13 in 31DEC24 for comparison. Moved nowhere. 16181. February 18, 2025 TEPLT Eric Changed the routine that sets a minimum range of plots so that on DIFF that range is 100 times smaller than on normal plots. Moved to 31DEC24 19 Feb. 16182. February 19, 2025 ZACTV9.C Eric Daniel Lyons discovered an incorrect sprintf error message in ZACTV9.C. Corrected. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16183. February 21, 2025 INDXH Eric This was an old pre-OOP version of INDXR created when that task was new and failing. It was supposed to go away and now it has. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16184. February 24, 2025 FITTP, FITAB, FITLD, UVLOD, IMLOD Eric Changed $APLSUB/READPL subroutine and FITLD, UVLOD, IMLOD to read slice files as well as plot files in the pseudo-table form started last year. Changed FITTP and FITAB to write slice as well as plot files and changed DOPLOT so that >= 0 will write the files. That meas the 2 help files also needed changing. Moved to 31DEC24 6 March. 16185. March 6, 2024 XPLOT Eric Changed XPLOT so that DOTV=-2 does the Tektronix plot, DOTV= +2 does the old TV plot, and 0 1). DOTV true plus TVPL did not care but LWPLA got very confused. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16190. March 19, 2025 PRTSY Eric Corrected the sort column from 3 (cal type) to 4 (source) when printing by source. Moved to 31DEC24 this date. 16191. March 19, 2025 SGDESTR Eric Changed AU2A to correct error made when SGUGET was added. SGDESTR left LUN 13 open which is bad indised AIPS.EXE. Moved correction only to 31DEC24 this date. 16192. March 20, 2025 SYHIS Eric NEW TASK: Plots histograms and prints means and rmses for SysPower data (Psum, Pdif, Psys). It does a semi-robust determination of mean and rms to determine the range of each antenna/IF/polarization. It then fills in histograms of each and fits a Gaussian to it. The resulting means and rmses may be written to a text file. The histograms are then plotted with up to 16 per plot page. Moved nowhere. 16193. March