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Re: underscore bug? [message #22762] Fri, 01 December 2000 00:00
davidf is currently offline  davidf
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Andrew (noymer@my-deja.com) writes:

> I know this sounds weird, but I am wondering is there
> a known bug---or feature---regarding the underscore
> character (_) in IDL 5.3 (linux)?
>
> I was making some SURFACES and all of a sudden the fonts
> were all $%^&ed up and I could not fix it for about an hour
> of messing around. I backtracked to an old version that
> worked and found that it lacked the underscore character in
> things like dataset and output filenames. I was desperate, so
> I tried renaming all the things I had with the underscore
> and the problem went away.
>
> It was such a time sink, I don't even feel like pinpointing it.
> BUT... is this a known "issue"?

Andrew, what have you been smoking lately!? :-)

Cheers,

David

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