| IDL !path command under Digital Unix [message #12062] |
Thu, 11 June 1998 00:00 |
Paul Morris
Messages: 3
Registered: May 1997
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I wondered if anyone knew why IDL was not able to parse certain idl
!path
directories. I have recently had to port some IDL code written for VMS
into UNIX and
it was so much easier to keep the same VMS directory names (see below).
The following shows the problem as simply as possible:
idl> !path = expand_path('+/home')
idl> print, !path
/home/test1:/home/test2:/home/ATSRPW$DKB300:[TEST]
The subdirectory /home/ATSRPW$DKB300:[TEST] contains all the ported VMS
idl.
However when I try and run the code in IDL all I get is
idl> .run vms_port.pro
% Can't open file for input: vms_port.pro
No such file or directory
This is strange as !path picks up /home/ATSRPW$DKB300:[TEST] correctly.
It
obviously has something to do with $ and [] symbols in the directory
name, but
these are handled without problem by the (bash) shell on which IDL is
running.
Would anyone have any workarounds, other than renaming the subdirectory?
with much thanks,
Paul Morris,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford
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