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Re: Creating directories ? [message #20078] Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00
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>> Is there a way to create directories using IDL procedures or functions ?
>> Can I call system commands from IDL ?
>
> IDL> spawn, 'mkdir /path/to/new/directory'

why not just like this ?

IDL> $ mkdir /path/to/new/directory


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Re: Creating directories ? [message #20091 is a reply to message #20078] Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00 Go to previous message
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Nicolas Decoster wrote:
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> Hi.
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> Is there a way to create directories using IDL procedures or functions ?
> Can I call system commands from IDL ?

On a unix platform you can create a directory like this:

IDL> spawn, 'mkdir /path/to/new/directory'

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