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Re: findfile on unix bug - help [message #27029 is a reply to message #26927]

Mon, 08 October 2001 07:35

R.G.S.
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Registered: September 2000

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Paul Manusiu <phpvm@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in message
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>> and this works ( of course, I shudder at the thought of using code that
>> changes the current directory).
>>
>
> Under Unix, CD does not affect the working directory of the process that
> started IDL.

I did not know that. If that is info that is kept by IDL, does it extend to
the following question: If I have two IDL sessions running, they won't
cross talk the current directory? That is my fear with this solution, that
process1 would change directory to /data, then process2 would change
it to /output, then process1 would try to read data files and fail.
If this won't happen, then the cd,subdirectory kludge isn't so bad.

> Check that there isn't a blank character in your subdirectory string. For
> example use
> strtrim(subdirectory,1)

No blank characters, I checked that. I have used
strcompress(subdir+'*."+extension,/remove_all).
Same results.

> Also if its a subdirectory of the current directory (ie relative path)
check
> that you have not place " / "
> at the beginning of your path.

I use absolute paths (since the data is kept in its own tree, separate
from my user tree, or the IDL tree).

Cheers,
bob

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		findfile on unix bug - help By: R.G.S. on Thu, 04 October 2001 12:43
		Re: findfile on unix bug - help By: Paul Manusiu on Mon, 08 October 2001 22:54
		Re: findfile on unix bug - help By: R.G.S. on Mon, 08 October 2001 07:35
		Re: findfile on unix bug - help By: Paul Manusiu on Mon, 08 October 2001 07:00
		Re: findfile on unix bug - help By: R.G.S. on Thu, 04 October 2001 14:48
		Re: findfile on unix bug - help By: thompson on Thu, 04 October 2001 14:32

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