| Re: Bug in IDL 4.0 hypertext help makes PICKFILE crash [message #5030] |
Sat, 09 September 1995 00:00 |
geomagic
Messages: 22
Registered: November 1993
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In article <42p8v9$rnv@griffin.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Anne Martel <anne.martel@nottingham.ac.uk> writes:
> I've found a bug in the new hypertext help facility in IDL 4.0. so I
> though I'd try to save everyone the fustration I went through before I
> managed to track it down!
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> If you call help from within idltool by typing '?', then any subsequent
> calls to PICKFILE will cause idltool to freeze up. This happens on
> SGI and HP workstations - I don't know if it affects anything else.
> This is easy to get around, just call idlhelp from a UNIX shell and
> not from idltool.
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> So if you are suddenly finding that PICKFILE is crashing, perhaps it's
> because you used the help facility at sometime during the session (it
> still crashes even if you quit from help first)
IDL 4.0 would produce segmentation faults on our HP's in a variety
of situations. Since loading 4.0.1, I haven't crashed yet. It's
one of the know bugs fixed in 4.0.1 for HP.
Dan (I speak for no organization) O'Connell
geomagic@seismo.usbr.gov
Seismotectonics Group, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Denver Federal Center, P.O. Box 25007 D-8330, Denver, CO 80225
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geomagic@seismo.usbr.gov
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