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Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? [message #23321 is a reply to message #23312]

Wed, 17 January 2001 02:37

wilms
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In article <onbst8eczg.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>,
Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
>> Nick Bower (bowern@ses.curtin.edu.au) writes:
>>
>>> This really sucks and it's most unfortunate that such a well-known
>>> package like this has been inadvertently clobbered without a hint of
>>> documentation.
>>

[snip]

>
> Yes, STRTOK was one of the things I mentioned in my rant a few days
> ago. As I understand, STRTOK, was and is an undocumented built-in
> function. And obviously, is incompatible with the version in
> TextoIDL.
>
> I have done a little research. It does indeed seem that Mr. Craig's
> host of TextoIDL, coma.berkeley.edu has gone off-line. I cannot find
> him in the on-line UC Berkeley directory, and the Berekely whois
> server does not respond. His web page is still up
> (http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mcraig/). Apparently he's a real
> kayaker.

A while back I was in contact with Matthew Craig and we were allowed to host
textoidl at

http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/software/idl/textoidl/index.ht ml

I have not heard from him since, but the code on the web-page runs on 5.3

Joern

>
> I would be glad to host TextoIDL on my web page. It can be
> distributed without modifications no problem. However the terms of
> redistribution forbid changes, so we couldn't fix the STRTOK problem.
>
> Is there anybody here from the UC Berkeley Astronomy department who
> knows what happened to Mr. Craig? I have sent a note to his former
> email address. We will see what happens.
>
> Craig
>
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		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: Nick Bower on Wed, 17 January 2001 08:45
		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: Nick Bower on Wed, 17 January 2001 08:48
		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: wilms on Wed, 17 January 2001 02:37
		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: Nick Bower on Tue, 16 January 2001 07:58
		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 15 January 2001 13:12
		Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? By: davidf on Mon, 15 January 2001 08:57

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