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Re: linking programs/ procedures [message #19781 is a reply to message #19779]

Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00

davidf
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Troy Carter (tcarter@princeton.edu) writes:

> OK. sorry, it doesn't exactly compile it separately, but I believe it
> does what our friend asking the question wanted :). Sometimes it can be
> necessary: I am part of an experimental group that works out of one unix
> account (as a solution to the problem of who owns the data files, maybe
> not the best solution -- afs permissions might be better). So, we all
> use the same routines, but someone is always doing something stupid like
> copying a routine out of one directory into another. So sometimes
> several versions exist in severl places (all of which are in the idl
> path). So this causes much frustration, and it has become easier to
> target the specific file you are after with the "@" include statement.
> Sure, we should do a better job of keeping often used routines in one
> place with one version (I am trying to use RCS/CVS now to help out with
> that), but just to be sure, the "@" makes a lot of sense.

Oh, well, if your life is a mess ... Then, of course, anything
that works. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say if you know what you are doing you can
get away with a LOT of things. I'm just not sure our friend is
at that stage yet. :-)

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		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: davidf on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: davidf on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: Troy Carter on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: davidf on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: Troy Carter on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: davidf on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00
		Re: linking programs/ procedures By: Alex Schuster on Wed, 26 April 2000 00:00

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