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FILEPATH bug (feature) in IDl for Windows [message #1471]

Wed, 29 September 1993 14:19

hadfield
Messages: 11
Registered: October 1993

Junior Member

A problem and a solution: When its TMP keyword is set, the
USERLIB function FILEPATH in IDL (version 3.1) is supposed
to return a fully-qualified pathname in the "proper place for temporary files
under the current operating system". When run under Windows on my system it
gives:

IDL> print,filepath('foo.dat',/tmp)
\tmp\foo.dat

The solution is to replace the following code:

IF (do_tmp) THEN BEGIN
CASE !VERSION.OS OF
...
'windows': root_dir = '\tmp'

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Mark Hadfield NIWA Oceanographic (Taihoro Nukurangi)
hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz Wellington, New Zealand

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