| Re: IDL5.5 online help [message #29286] |
Tue, 12 February 2002 01:03 |
Christophe Marque
Messages: 11
Registered: January 1999
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JD Smith wrote:
> IDLWAVE, the emacs development mode for IDL, has integrated most v5.5
> changes in its fast text-based online help. David Fanning has also made
> available an html version of this help file.
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> See http://idlwave.org.
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> Good luck,
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> JD
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Oh yes I use it on a daily basis, and by the way it is a very useful emacs
package, thanks to you.
Christophe
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| Re: IDL5.5 online help [message #29297 is a reply to message #29286] |
Mon, 11 February 2002 10:53  |
Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000
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Christophe Marque wrote:
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> Unfortunatly, the online IDL help remains at the 5.4 level. Our Iocal RSI
> support just says we should refer to the 'what news' booklet (2 books for
> ~ 15 users) or to the PDF file (~400 pages).
> This seems to me really incredible if we remember the cost of IDL licenses.
<sarcasm mode on>
Oh, but every penny counts, though...
Besides, PDF is tree frendly. IDL users should be environmentally concerned.
Pavel
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| Re: IDL5.5 online help [message #29301 is a reply to message #29297] |
Mon, 11 February 2002 10:04 |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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Senior Member |
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Christophe Marque wrote:
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> Hello all IDL users,
> We have just installed IDL 5.5 on our computers: Dec alpha running True
> UNIX and Mac OS systems.
>
> Unfortunatly, the online IDL help remains at the 5.4 level. Our Iocal RSI
> support just says we should refer to the 'what news' booklet (2 books for
> ~ 15 users) or to the PDF file (~400 pages).
> This seems to me really incredible if we remember the cost of IDL licenses.
>
> Is it the same thing under Windows, or has RSI definitively decided to
> despise its non-Windows customers?
IDLWAVE, the emacs development mode for IDL, has integrated most v5.5
changes in its fast text-based online help. David Fanning has also made
available an html version of this help file.
See http://idlwave.org.
Good luck,
JD
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| Re: IDL5.5 online help [message #29303 is a reply to message #29301] |
Mon, 11 February 2002 09:31 |
Roman Schreiber
Messages: 5
Registered: January 2001
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Christophe Marque wrote in
> Hello all IDL users,
> We have just installed IDL 5.5 on our computers: Dec alpha running True
> UNIX and Mac OS systems.
>
> Unfortunatly, the online IDL help remains at the 5.4 level. Our Iocal
> RSI support just says we should refer to the 'what news' booklet (2
> books for ~ 15 users) or to the PDF file (~400 pages).
> This seems to me really incredible if we remember the cost of IDL
> licenses.
>
> Is it the same thing under Windows, or has RSI definitively decided to
> despise its non-Windows customers?
>
> Regards,
> Christophe
>
Unfortunately, it works exactly that same way under Windows.
Before realising that I tried to look for the corresponding
(updated) PDF files on the RSI ftp server...
Best regards
Roman Schreiber
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