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| Re: Does IDL 5.2 require Solaris 2.6? [message #13892 is a reply to message #13890] |
Wed, 06 January 1999 00:00  |
pit
Messages: 92
Registered: January 1996
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In article <MPG.10fc61a987a18219896c0@news.frii.com>,
davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
> It's even worse when you upgrade your operating system.
> (Mac OS 8.5 is my latest nightmare.) Then you have to
> upgrade all your software whether you want to or not. :-(
Just for the record, I'm running my IDL 4.01 since about 4 years and had
at least 3 major and many minor upgrades of my OS without any problems.
OS is Linux.
Peter
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| Re: Does IDL 5.2 require Solaris 2.6? [message #13894 is a reply to message #13890] |
Wed, 06 January 1999 00:00 |
tferro
Messages: 6
Registered: May 1996
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David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) wrote:
: in fact be the case? Will IDL 5.2 work on Solaris 2.5?
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No, it won't. The story I got from RSI was that with the changes to
make everything 64-bit compatible, and do things like support really
large files, they had to go with 2.6. I posted a note a few weeks
ago about it. BTW, the Linux version requires the new glibc too.
I don't know what the reason for that is (except something like they
only have one Linux machine and it's running RedHat).
- Tony "Now supporting three versions of IDL" Ferro
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| Re: Does IDL 5.2 require Solaris 2.6? [message #13901 is a reply to message #13890] |
Tue, 05 January 1999 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) writes:
> If IDL expects all of their customers to upgrade their systems so
> they can use their precious software then I will definitely have
> more to say on this!
I don't know why RSI should be any different than any other
software vendor I know. Take Framemaker, Quicken, Microsoft
Word, Photoshop, or any other piece of software on this
machine. Got to have that last piece of OS software to keep
current.
How could it be otherwise!?
It's even worse when you upgrade your operating system.
(Mac OS 8.5 is my latest nightmare.) Then you have to
upgrade all your software whether you want to or not. :-(
Cheers,
David
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