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Re: strart up file in idl
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description: iarla@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk (Iarla Kilbane-Dawe) wrote: > Hi there, > > We've just got a license for idl having been pv-wave > users for some time. Unfortunately we have yet to receive the manuals. > I'm used to setting up some variables in idl at start up using a file > in my home directory called .wave_start. Is there an equivalent in > IDL that I can use, please? > Set the enviroment variable IDL_STARTUP to the startup file, e.g., # setenv IDL_STARTUP $HOME/idl/.idl_startup You might find the IDL_LIB variable useful - # setenv IDL_LIB +$IDL_DIR/lib:+$HOME/idl/lib which will look for procedures in those directories, and all dirs below. Fergus ================================================= | Fergus Gallagher | | Remote Sensing Applications Development Unit | | British National Space Centre | | Monks Wood | | Huntingdon PE17 2LS / UK | | | | F.Gallagher@nerc.ac.uk | | http://uh.nmt.ac.uk/bnsc/fgg.html | =================================================
creator: Fergus Gallagher
date: 1995-05-01T07:00:00-00:00