Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
I previously wrote: > The free-trial versions can do just about everything that > the licensed versions can do except: > (1) Write files (they CAN write postscript output). > (2) Spawn operating system commands. > (3) Call external subroutines (written in Fortran or C). > (4) Run for more than about 7 minutes. I just received a correction from someone at Precision Visuals. These limits only apply to the IDL free trial. PV-WAVE does not limit what the free trial version can do. The only limit the free trial version of PV-WAVE has is that it only works for 30-45 days, a limitation the free trial version of IDL does not impose. I apologize for my error. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- (Opinions are mine alone.) Mitchell R Grunes (grunes@nrlvax.nrl.navy.mil) Allied-Signal Technical Services
In article <grunes.212.800643277@news.nrl.navy.mil>, grunes@news.nrl.navy.mil (Mitchell R Grunes) wrote: > I previously wrote: >> The free-trial versions can do just about everything that >> the licensed versions can do except: >> (1) Write files (they CAN write postscript output). >> (2) Spawn operating system commands. >> (3) Call external subroutines (written in Fortran or C). >> (4) Run for more than about 7 minutes. > > I just received a correction from someone at Precision Visuals. > These limits only apply to the IDL free trial. PV-WAVE does > not limit what the free trial version can do. > > The only limit the free trial version of PV-WAVE has > is that it only works for 30-45 days, a limitation the > free trial version of IDL does not impose. Mitchell - It used to be possible, and I believe still is possible with the new version of the FLEX license manager, to get an IDL trial license from RSI (with all capabilities of the paid-up version), for any length of time upon which you and your RSI sales rep agree. (But I wouldn't try asking for much longer than 45 days....) Joe Gurman -- Joseph B. Gurman / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Solar Data Analysis Center / Code 682 / Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov | Federal employees are still prohibited from holding opinions while at work. Any opinions expressed herein must therefore be someone else's. |