| IDL Answer Tool Alpha Version [message #1210] |
Mon, 28 June 1993 08:48 |
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Registered: February 1993
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As our IDL library archive grows up, we have now developped an "Answer Tool".
It is available via ftp:
ftp.sma.ch (141.249.3.33)
cd /pub/idlmeteo
bin
get IATOOL_0.1a.tar.Z
note: The indexed news archives are included in the IATOOL, so you don't need to
get the news-archives in the directory /pub/idlmeteo/idlusers!
It was developped on IDL 3.1 , SunOS 4.1.2
If you have this environment, you should be able to directly startup
the tool after uncompressing in the directory IATOOL with ./iatool .
On other systems it is required to get the WAIS stuff from think.com
and to recompile at least the waisindex, waisserver and waisq programs.
Below the manpage for further information.
As it is just a first alpha version the documention is not to much, so
feel free to contact me if you run into problems.
Under IDL 3.0 it is required to recompile the application in the subdirectory
iatool.src just typing 'make' because the runtime moduls are not compatible
from 3.0 to 3.1 and backwards.
Have Fun,
Thomas
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iatool(1) USER COMMANDS iatool(1)
NAME
iatool - IDL Answer Tool
SYNOPSIS
iatool
DESCRIPTION
The Idl Answer Tool is an enhanced online help for idl
libraries. In addition to the capabilities of the IDL inter-
nal Online Help '?' the idl answer tool allows to compose
more detailed select statements and to retrieve a lot of
additional informations:
- Select by library and/or category
- Select by name (some beginning characters)
- Clicking on a procedure name in the list box displays
the entire source code, not only the help part (except
for the idl basic routines). This allows to learn
quickly from existing procedures.
- User specific configuration. Some options like
font, display window size, print command can be defined
by the user via an included properties editor.
- Browsing through the IDL notes of the IDL distribution
via pulldown menues.
- Show numbered color indices for all default color tables
from the idl distribution. All information is retrieved
directly from colors.tbl.
- Address Book of IDL Distributors and Help lines
- Easy addtion of own libraries:
The database is generated from help files, with a the
utilites provided with the Idl Answert Tool package you
can add your own libraries to the database in a single
step after the generation of the help file with
mk_library_help.
- On Unix Systems: Indexed text search through all available
procedures, notes and examples from the IDL distribu-
tion and archives of comp.lang.idl-pvwave and other
visualization news groups with information about IDL.
Multiple OR combined with multiple AND searches are
possible. (Based on the WAIS Text retrieval system
from think.com).
RESTRICTIONS
Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 1E1 1
iatool(1) USER COMMANDS iatool(1)
The IDLSolve sub modul works only on Unix systems and
requires a running WAIS-Server with a well configured WAIS-
source file to get correct information about the server for
the IDL-WAIS-Client (see installation notes).
NOTES
If you have runtime licenses it is recommend to install the
Answer Tool as runtime modul and startup idl via a shell
script with the parameters -rt, for example:
#!/bin/csh
idl -rt='iatool.run'
"MODIFICATION HISTORY"
Written by: Thomas.Oettli@sma.ch, 16-dec-1992
rewritten from scratch 05-May-1993
11-June-1993, Th. Oettli, added WAIS-Client modul
for free text search
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