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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25246]

Fri, 01 June 2001 13:08

thierry[1]
Messages: 5
Registered: March 2001

Junior Member

In article <9f2829$u3$1@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>, "Dominik Paul News"
<dpaul@ukl.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> Does somebody has experience with IDL 5.4 on a G3 with MacOS 9.1?
> On our system it is starting very slow, so we have to wait for more than one
> minute after loading.
>
> Dom
>
> --
> ====================================
> Dominik Paul
> Uniklinik Freiburg
> Abt. Nuklearmedizin/PET
> ====================================

Hi Dominik,

This is not normal. As someone else mentioned, if you have a network drive
with a very deep path structure set in your IDL paths, it can (and does)
take a while to traverse. However, you said this was not the case. Are you
launching it from the CD?

--
Thierry Faucounau
Research Systems, Inc.

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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25275 is a reply to message #25246]

Thu, 31 May 2001 05:43

Ben Tupper
Messages: 186
Registered: August 1999

Senior Member

David Fanning wrote:

> Bob Fugate (rqfugate@mindspring.com) writes:
>
>> Does somebody has experience with IDL 5.4 on a G3 with MacOS 9.1?
>> On our system it is starting very slow, so we have to wait for more than one
>> minute after loading.
>
> I seem to remember a posting that said the slow startup
> was done the very first time, so things could be
> organized, but after that the startup was as fast
> as normal.

I believe this had to do with opening a *.pro, new to the particular session,
rather than to starting IDL itself.
We have IDL5.4 on a G4 running MacOS9.1. I never noticed the startup of IDL to
be especially slow; but for a guy who doesn't know better, Firestone tires look
pretty good.

> Pavel seems to have given up on us, much to
> my personal disappointment. He would know about this. :-(
>

His presence and sparkle are missed here.

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Bristol, ME 04539

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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25277 is a reply to message #25275]

Thu, 31 May 2001 04:26

Dominik[1]
Messages: 46
Registered: April 2001

Member

IDL was installed and startet a couple of times, the Mac was NOT on a
network and no startup file was used.
It tooks a extrem long time to come to a window, where I can choose my
preferences (there are RSI and my own settings, which I can choose).
But, maybe, what I forgot to say, that we (at the moment) only own a
testing version for 30 days, because we wanted to run our programms on a
different system (we normaly use Sun and Windows, but now want to see, if
the mac is faster). So maybe this problem comes with the testversion.

Dom

"Paul Woodford" <woodford@us.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:woodford-A275AA.22403330052001@corp.supernews.com...
> In article <9f2829$u3$1@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>,
> "Dominik Paul News" <dpaul@ukl.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
>> Does somebody has experience with IDL 5.4 on a G3 with MacOS 9.1?
>> On our system it is starting very slow, so we have to wait for more than
one
>> minute after loading.
>
> I have not timed our G3's, but one minute is extremely slow. Do you
> have a slow network drive in your path? Do you have a startup file that
> is doing anything time-consuming?
>
> Paul

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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25279 is a reply to message #25277]

Wed, 30 May 2001 20:42

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Bob Fugate (rqfugate@mindspring.com) writes:

> Does somebody has experience with IDL 5.4 on a G3 with MacOS 9.1?
> On our system it is starting very slow, so we have to wait for more than one
> minute after loading.

I seem to remember a posting that said the slow startup
was done the very first time, so things could be
organized, but after that the startup was as fast
as normal. Pavel seems to have given up on us, much to
my personal disappointment. He would know about this. :-(

Cheers,

David
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Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25280 is a reply to message #25279]

Wed, 30 May 2001 20:25

Bob Fugate
Messages: 18
Registered: March 2001

Junior Member

Dom,
I am using IDL 5.4 with OS 9.1 on a 500 MHz Pismo PowerBook. It launches
ready to enter code in 4-5 seconds.
Bob Fugate

> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:38:47 +0200
> Subject: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1
>
> Does somebody has experience with IDL 5.4 on a G3 with MacOS 9.1?
> On our system it is starting very slow, so we have to wait for more than one
> minute after loading.
>
> Dom

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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25281 is a reply to message #25280]

Wed, 30 May 2001 19:40

Paul Woodford
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Registered: June 2000

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Re: IDL 5.4 and MacOS 9.1 [message #25340 is a reply to message #25279]

Wed, 06 June 2001 10:18

Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000

Senior Member

Hi David,

> Pavel seems to have given up on us, much to
> my personal disappointment. He would know about this. :-(

How could you even think so? I was away on a trip for a month! I am back
with all silly advice I have to offer :-)

I agree that this is this individual computer's fault. Either it is an
upgraded Mac with a G3 chip that has an old SCSI drive that's slow, or
the drive is badly fragmented. Even an Apple G3 that comes with an
EIDE33 drive bus should do faster than this. A newer G4s come with at
least an EIDE66, or maybe even ATA100 drives. It takes about a second
toget 5.4 running on mine.

Cheers,
Pavel

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