Instrument Model Bugs: tpsf

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Bugs

Instantiating a TPSF model and writing out its amplitudes can cause output to STDOUT to cease.

This is not a case of verbosity being reset to zero. The root cause is unknown.

sherpa> tpsf2d[t]
sherpa> instrument = t
sherpa> write t 
...
sherpa> fit            # does not run, no output
sherpa> quit           # Goodbye is NOT echoed to the screen
unix%