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Re: IDL online help for v6.0 (sigh) [message #38581 is a reply to message #38579]

Fri, 12 March 2004 11:49

btt
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Registered: December 2000

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Paul Van Delst wrote:

> 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
>
Hi Paul,

I find that 99% of the time I use the HTML help system that is
distributed with IDLWAVE (idlwave.org) even though I don't use IDLWAVE
(yet). I find it very well organized and easy to navigate.

I put a link to funclisting.html on my browser bar (it's my home page, too)

Ben

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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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