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Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) [message #38579 is a reply to message #38578]

Fri, 12 March 2004 13:18

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Paul Van Delst wrote:

Dear Paul

I have not tried yet but I read about it in the german linux user magazine.
http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/

This tool is able to read the windows help files.

If this works fine we should do a feature request.

Reimar

> Hello there,
>
> Well, I just got meself a new computer with Redhat Enterprise 3.something
> and IDL 6.0. IDL works fine (so far), but the online help requires
> acroread. Typically this wouldn't be a problem, but the powers that be
> tell me that acroread is not available for RH Enterprise (whether for
> technical and/or legal/political reasons I don't know). I've tried
> substituting in open sourced readers like xpdf, but IDL insists on using
> acroread (and, anyway, when I do use xpdf on the actual help files, I
> don't have a lot of functionality).
>
> I know this was all hashed out in this newsgroup when the online help
> change occurred, but since I had old versions, I really didn't give it
> much thought. Now, however, I have a brand spanking new version of IDL,
> but no online help.
>
> Can some kind person out there tell me what my options are? Will acroread
> v5.0 run on RH Enterprise? Or can the help files be converted somehow for
> use in a regular browser like mozilla? (I recall something about this when
> this was previosuly discussed.)
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> paulv

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		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: JD Smith on Fri, 12 March 2004 16:49
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 12 March 2004 16:39
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 12 March 2004 16:09
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: JD Smith on Fri, 12 March 2004 13:53
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: JD Smith on Fri, 12 March 2004 13:37
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: R.Bauer on Fri, 12 March 2004 13:18
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: btt on Fri, 12 March 2004 11:49
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 12 March 2004 11:47
		Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 12 March 2004 11:35

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