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Re: How to free luns? [message #12359]

Thu, 16 July 1998 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

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Joseph Scott Stuart wrote:
>
> I often have the problem when I'm trying to debug a new IDL procedure,
> that it crashes in the middle before getting to the part where it
> frees the LUNs. If I run the program again and again trying to debug
> it, IDL can quickly run out of LUNs. Is there a way to free all of
> the allocated LUNs? Now, I know that I could catch all errors and
> free them in the error handler, but that seems like a hassle when I'm
> debugging code because the error message gets redirected. I could
> just start writing the code correctly the first time, but that would
> take all of the fun out of it.:-)

Just a gentle reminder to RTFM. The CLOSE() routine has a keyword
/ALL that does just what you want. You can also use /FILE to
selectively close units <= 99.

If you ever want to know which files are open, just use:

help, /files

Dave

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