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IDL 5.4 and gifs [message #23239]

Fri, 19 January 2001 13:38

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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I was visiting someone with IDL 5.4 on Linux today. I mentioned the
lack of GIF support, and my friend was surprised. We confirmed that
when we tried to open a GIF, we got an error message. However there
is an idl_gif.so library file, and WRITE_GIF, READ_GIF, etc still
exists as procedures in the standard library.

We tried the simple experiment of replacing the IDL 5.4 idl_gif.so
library and DLM files with the ones from IDL 5.3.

It worked! We were able at least to read old GIFs into IDL with no
problem. I didn't try writing any GIFs however.

Has anybody else tried this and got it to work? For previous
purchasers of IDL, this at least is a good sign. :-)

Craig

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		IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 19 January 2001 13:38
		Re: HOW By: Mark Chan on Wed, 24 January 2001 19:15
		Re: HOW By: Mark Chan on Thu, 25 January 2001 18:38
		Re: HOW By: marc schellens[1] on Mon, 05 February 2001 22:55
		Re: HOW By: davidf on Wed, 24 January 2001 19:53
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: R.Bauer on Mon, 22 January 2001 08:24
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Fri, 26 January 2001 15:36
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: davidf on Fri, 26 January 2001 14:47
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Todd Clements on Fri, 26 January 2001 14:31
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Fri, 26 January 2001 13:01
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: davidf on Thu, 25 January 2001 20:21
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Thu, 25 January 2001 19:46

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