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Re: help with windows directory command from within idl [message #18561]

Thu, 13 January 2000 00:00

Nando Iavarone
Messages: 48
Registered: December 1998

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Peter Brooker wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am running IDL on an NT. I use the CD command to
change directories
 from within IDL. Staying inside IDL, I now want to list which files
are
 in this remote directory.  The IDL command
IDL> SPAWN,'DIR'
Opens up a DOS window but then closes it immediatly.
How can I get IDL to keep the DOS window open so I can look at the
 files?
Is there a way other than SPAWN to list the files in the new directory?
thanks-Peter Brooker</blockquote>
You can simply use the "findfile" too.
fileNames = findfile()
fileNames will be a string array in which each element is a file name
in your directory
Bye.
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Re: help with windows directory command from within idl [message #18570 is a reply to message #18561]

Thu, 13 January 2000 00:00

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

Peter Brooker wrote:
>
> I am running IDL on an NT. I use the CD command to change directories
> from within IDL. Staying inside IDL, I now want to list which files are
> in this remote directory. The IDL command
>
> IDL> SPAWN,'DIR'
>
> Opens up a DOS window but then closes it immediatly.
>
> How can I get IDL to keep the DOS window open so I can look at the
> files?
>
> Is there a way other than SPAWN to list the files in the new directory?
>
> thanks-Peter Brooker

You can try,

dialog_pickfile()
findfile()

R. Bauer

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Re: help with windows directory command from within idl [message #18574 is a reply to message #18561]

Wed, 12 January 2000 00:00

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Peter Brooker (ra5589@email.sps.mot.com) writes:

> I am running IDL on an NT. I use the CD command to change directories
> from within IDL. Staying inside IDL, I now want to list which files are
> in this remote directory. The IDL command
>
> IDL> SPAWN,'DIR'
>
> Opens up a DOS window but then closes it immediatly.
>
> How can I get IDL to keep the DOS window open so I can look at the
> files?
>
> Is there a way other than SPAWN to list the files in the new directory?

I use Paul Sorenson's fabulous little tool, XCD. I personally
couldn't live without it. :-)

http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs.html

Cheers,

David

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