AIPS HELP file for OUTPRINT in 31DEC26
As of Thu Dec 11 21:21:18 2025
HELP SECTION
OUTPRINT
Type: Adverb (String*48)
Use: Specify the name of a disk file outside the AIPS catalog system
to capture printer output from a task or verb. If this option
is used, the file is NOT printed, nor deleted. The file may be
used more than once; the outputs will be concatenated. The
resulting file will be a standard disk text file, nor a
"Fortran" formatted print file.
Format: The name is usually given by specifying a logical device plus
directory, followed by a colon, followed by the actual file
name. For Unix, a "logical" is an environment variable and can
be set up, e.g. from the C shell:
percent setenv MYAREA /home/me/aips/
or from the bourne, korn, or bash shells:
$ MYAREA=/home/me/aips/; export MYAREA
The logical name must be set up before entering the AIPS program
and is usually in upper case. Then in AIPS you can set, e.g.
OUTPRINT = 'MYAREA:PRINT.DAT'
Note that the Unix-standard $ ahead of the logical is omitted.
Other forms are now acceptable as well:
OUTPRINT = 'FITS.DAT
will find the file in the directory local when you started AIPS.
A full path name may also be given
OUTPRINT = '/home/primate2/egreisen/AIPS/Text.prt
if it fits in 48 characters. Note that the trailing quote mark
is left off and this is the last command on the input line so
that the case is preserved.
Null value: ' '
Taken to mean print and delete a scratch file when used by
interactive jobs. Batch jobs use PRTFIL:BATCHjjj.nnn, where jjj
is the job number and nnn the user number both in hex. Note,
this means batch job printouts are concatenated in one file and
are not automatically printed.
Printing:
If you want to print a file after generating it with OUTPRINT,
you should use the F2PS.EXE program to process or "filter" the
file. To do this properly, you need to know how many lines per
page your host is set up for; this can be found by typing RUN
SETPAR outside of AIPS and looking at the value (it's near the
end). Then, supposing this value is 88 and your file is in the
local directory and is called MYFILE.OUT, type:
cat MYFILE.OUT | F2PS.EXE -88 | lpr -Pps
to print it on printer queue "ps" on a Sun4. If the response is
that F2PS.EXE is not found, you need to load the AIPS
environment via LOGIN.CSH or LOGIN.SH. For additional details,
see comments in F2PS.FOR and ZLPCL2.
Verbs:
ABOUT.........Displays lists and information on tasks, verbs,
adverbs
EXPLAIN.......Display extended information on an AIPS symbol.
HELP..........Display information about a task, verb, adverb, or
general AIPS symbol.
OFMLIST.......Lists the current TV OFM table(s) on the terminal or
printer
PRTHI.........Print history information for an image or uv file.
PRTMSG........Print selected contents of user message file.
Procedures:
BASFIT........Fits antenna locations from SN-table data
VLACALIB......Runs CALIB and LISTR for VLA observation
VLACLCAL......Runs CLCAL and prints the results with LISTR
VLALIST.......Runs LISTR for VLA observation
VLASUMM.......Plots selected contents of SN or CL files
VLBASUMM......Plots selected contents of SN or CL files
Y2K...........Verifies correctness and performance using standard
problems
Y2KSAVE.......Verifies correctness and performance using standard
problems.
Tasks:
ALVPR.........Prints statistics on the Allan Variance of a UV data
set
ANBPL.........Plots and prints uv data converted to antenna based
values
BLSUM.........Sums images over TV-generated irregular areas,
plots and prints resulting spectra
BPERR.........Print and plot BPASS closure outputs
BSPRT.........Print BS tables
COHER.........Baseline phase coherence measurement
CORER.........Determines and prints correlator statistics, flags
bad correlators
DIFUV.........Difference two matching uv data sets, write out or
print statistics.
DISKU.........Shows disk use by one or all users
DTSUM.........Task to provide a summary of the contents of a
dataset
FGPRT.........Prints counts of selected portions of an FG table.
FINDR.........Find normal values for a uv data set
FLAGR.........Edit data based on internal RMS, amplitudes, weights
HFPRT.........Write HF tables from CL2HF
ISPEC.........Plots and prints spectrum of region of a cube
LISTR.........Prints contents of UV data sets and associated
tables
LISUN.........Prints contents of UV data sets with Sun angles.
LOCIT.........Fits antenna locations from SN-table data
MFIMG.........Image the Earth magnetic field model or TEC data used
by TECOR.
MFPRT.........Prints MF tables in a format needed by modelling
software
OMFIT.........Fits sources and, optionally, a self-cal model to uv
data
OTFIN.........Lists on-the-fly single-dish SDD format data files
PRTAB.........Print contents of any table extension file
PRTAC.........Print contents and/or summaries of the accounting
information maintained by AIPS and tasks
PRTAN.........Print contents of an ANtenna extension file
PRTCC.........Print contents of a Clean Components extension file
PRTIM.........Display image values.
PRTOF.........Prints on-line flag table information
PRTSD.........Print contents of an AIPS single-dish data set
PRTSY.........Task to print statistics from the SY table
PRTTP.........Print contents of a magnetic tape
PRTUV.........Print contents of a UV data set
RFI...........Look for RFI in uv data
RIRMS.........Computes rms of real/imag of a selected subset of a
uv data set
RLDIF.........Determines right minus left phase difference
RSPEC.........Plots and prints spectrum of rms of a cube
SHOUV.........Displays uv data in various ways
SLPRT.........Prints a SLice File
SNRMS.........Print statistics for selected contents of SN, SY, TY,
PC or CL files.
SYHIS.........Task to clip, filter, smooth SY tables and plot
histograms.
SYPRT.........Task to print values from the SY table.
TADIF.........Prints differences between two table-format extension
files.
TBDIF.........Compare entries in two tables
TVDIC.........Task to copy a TV screen-image to a Dicomed film
recorder
TXPL..........Display a plot file on a terminal, history file, or
printer.
UVDIF.........Find differences between 2 UV files and print.
UVFND.........Print any "bad" points in a UV file.
UVHOL.........Prints holography data from a UV data base with
calibration
UVPRT.........Prints data from a UV data base with calibration
VHDIF.........Find/apply V minus H linear polarization phase
difference
XYDIF.........Find/apply X minus Y linear polarization phase
difference
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