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Re: HOW [message #23376 is a reply to message #23239]

Wed, 24 January 2001 19:15

Mark Chan
Messages: 24
Registered: November 2000

Junior Member

I am not a lawyer!

Could someone please explain to me what 'replacing the IDL 5.4 IDL_gif.so
library and DLM files with the ones from IDL 5.3' means?

I have never done anything like this before. Will like to learn this more.

I have 5.4 and am using 5.3 because of this gif problem. For the time being
I don't need to use this trick but don't mind knowing more.

Thanks,
Mark Chan

"Craig Markwardt" <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message
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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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