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Re: help with findfile [message #25759]

Wed, 11 July 2001 15:52

david[2]
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Mark Hadfield writes:

> So here's another solution to your problem: convert your disk to NTFS.

Alas, I did this too. Now my Windows 2000 machine
cannot see my Windows 98 machine on the network.
Although my Window NT machine can see both. Sheesh... :-(

Cheers,

David

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Re: help with findfile [message #25762 is a reply to message #25759]

Wed, 11 July 2001 15:34

m.hadfield
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From: "David Miller" <dom@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> I am using the FINDFILE routine to list all of the available data files in
a
> particular directory. I then search through the list to get starting and
> ending points for a particular image. However, the filenames returned by
> FINDFILE are not in order (alphabetical), they are all mixed up. Any way
to
> get them in order? I am using IDL 5.4 on Win 2000.

Since others have already responded with the correct solution (sort them!)
I'll just throw in a tangential $0.02c. Does anyone know what determines the
order of file listings returned by IDL on Windows? I could swear that when I
first installed IDL on Windows 2000, the file listings were consistently in
reverse alphabetical order. This applied to output from findfile and also to
the !PATH system variable (which caused me a small amount of grief until I
cleared out a few duplicate .pro files). I think it also applied to some
non-IDL utilities. I just went to check it again and I find everything in
forward alphabetical order! The only explanation I can think of is that I
converted my main hard disk from FAT32 to NTFS a week ago.

So here's another solution to your problem: convert your disk to NTFS. But
sorting the output from findfile is more reliable :-)

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Re: help with findfile [message #25769 is a reply to message #25762]

Wed, 11 July 2001 11:45

David Miller
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Registered: October 1999

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Craig,

Thanks, that works perfectly.

-Dave

"Craig Markwardt" <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message
news:on66czian5.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu...
>
> "David Miller" <dom@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
>
>> I am using the FINDFILE routine to list all of the available data files
in a
>> particular directory. I then search through the list to get starting and
>> ending points for a particular image. However, the filenames returned by
>> FINDFILE are not in order (alphabetical), they are all mixed up. Any way
to
>> get them in order? I am using IDL 5.4 on Win 2000.
>
> Will the SORT command help? Ie,
>
> NAMES = NAMES(SORT(NAMES)))
>
> Craig
>
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Re: help with findfile [message #25770 is a reply to message #25769]

Wed, 11 July 2001 11:27

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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"David Miller" <dom@virl.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> I am using the FINDFILE routine to list all of the available data files in a
> particular directory. I then search through the list to get starting and
> ending points for a particular image. However, the filenames returned by
> FINDFILE are not in order (alphabetical), they are all mixed up. Any way to
> get them in order? I am using IDL 5.4 on Win 2000.

Will the SORT command help? Ie,

NAMES = NAMES(SORT(NAMES)))

Craig

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Re: help with findfile [message #25772 is a reply to message #25770]

Wed, 11 July 2001 11:22

david[2]
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Registered: June 2001

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David Miller writes:

> I am using the FINDFILE routine to list all of the available data files in a
> particular directory. I then search through the list to get starting and
> ending points for a particular image. However, the filenames returned by
> FINDFILE are not in order (alphabetical), they are all mixed up. Any way to
> get them in order? I am using IDL 5.4 on Win 2000.

Sort them.

files = Findfile('*.img')
sortedfiles = files(SORT(files))

Cheers,

David

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Re: help with findfile [message #25782 is a reply to message #25759]

Tue, 17 July 2001 13:48

Pavel A. Romashkin
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Registered: November 2000

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David Fanning wrote:

> Alas, I did this too. Now my Windows 2000 machine
> cannot see my Windows 98 machine on the network.
> Although my Window NT machine can see both. Sheesh... :-(

This is what you get when you work with inferior operating systems :-)
When you use the superior one (which, of course, is Mac OS), you don't
have to worry about these issues. You KNOW that you ain't gonna see
neither of the three, and just get your work done on one computer.

Cheers,
Pavel

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Re: help with findfile [message #25860 is a reply to message #25782]

Wed, 18 July 2001 10:02

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

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"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
>
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Alas, I did this too. Now my Windows 2000 machine
>> cannot see my Windows 98 machine on the network.
>> Although my Window NT machine can see both. Sheesh... :-(
>
> This is what you get when you work with inferior operating systems :-)
> When you use the superior one (which, of course, is Mac OS), you don't
> have to worry about these issues. You KNOW that you ain't gonna see
> neither of the three, and just get your work done on one computer.
>
> Cheers,
> Pavel

These OS are really young and you want or like to live with such
problems.
I am not more!

You should either think about using linux. The new suse7.2 distribution
is very comfortable. The konqueror browser and the filemanager are
very useful and well planned
And KWord saves tex files. At the moment it's not able to read tex
files.
But I believe MS Word is much more far away to use tex files as KWord.

The staroffice suite reads and writes all MS Format files. Why pay
expensive
MS licenses ?

And IDL - hm there is no wuidget builder in unix that's for me a problem
too.
I know the builder "QT Designer" by Trolltex but this is only for C.
But this shows me that it is not impossible to write such a tool for
linux.

At the moment for widget programming I start vmware windows and idl.

cheers

Reimar

cheers

Reimar

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