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Re: Disable Virtual Machine [message #41334]

Thu, 07 October 2004 13:04

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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Vince Hradil wrote:
> We have runtime licenses, so I like to use those because of certain
> limitations using the vm - especially the device colors issues 8^(.
> So I run the sav files using idl -rt=file.sav. However, if the rt
> license cannot be found, the vm starts up. Is there a way to make
> sure that the vm does NOT start up? Here are a couple of options I
> thought of:
> 1-check for lmgr(/vm) in my code and gracefully exit. Of course, the
> user will still have to deal with the annoying splash screen - then
> not get any satisfaction from the failed program
> 2-uninstall (delete) the vm - how?

Try idlrt -novm file.sav

I haven't tried it, but looking at the idlrt binary I see this as an
option. The full list of options are (win32):

-em
-vm
-novm
-student

-Rick

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