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Re: PATH separator for Macs [message #59472] Mon, 31 March 2008 08:50 Go to next message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Mike Galloy wrote:

> IDL> print, path_sep(/search_path)
> :

Ah, that SEARCH_PATH keyword is what I was looking for!

Thanks,

David
Re: PATH separator for Macs [message #59473 is a reply to message #59472] Mon, 31 March 2008 08:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael Galloy is currently offline  Michael Galloy
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On Mar 31, 9:21 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> What is the !PATH path separator for Macintoshs?
>
> And what does this command produce on Macs?
>
>   IDL> help, !version, /structure

IDL> print, path_sep(/search_path)
:

IDL> help, !version, /structures
** Structure !VERSION, 8 tags, length=76, data length=76:
ARCH STRING 'i386'
OS STRING 'darwin'
OS_FAMILY STRING 'unix'
OS_NAME STRING 'Mac OS X'
RELEASE STRING '7.0'
BUILD_DATE STRING 'Oct 25 2007'
MEMORY_BITS INT 32
FILE_OFFSET_BITS
INT 64

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Re: PATH separator for Macs [message #59474 is a reply to message #59473] Mon, 31 March 2008 08:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Enemy of the State is currently offline  Enemy of the State
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On Mar 31, 11:21 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> What is the !PATH path separator for Macintoshs?
>
> And what does this command produce on Macs?
>
>   IDL> help, !version, /structure
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

On a Mac Pro, intel chip, running OS X 10.4.11 I get:


IDL> help,!version,/structure
** Structure !VERSION, 8 tags, length=104, data length=100:
ARCH STRING 'mipseb'
OS STRING 'IRIX'
OS_FAMILY STRING 'unix'
OS_NAME STRING 'IRIX'
RELEASE STRING '6.4'
BUILD_DATE STRING 'Mar 23 2007'
MEMORY_BITS INT 64
FILE_OFFSET_BITS
INT 64
IDL> print,!path
/raid/users/quigley/Idl/sota:/raid/users/quigley/Idl/Idl_sch mitt/
Animate:/raid/users/quigley/Idl/Idl_schmitt/Eos:/raid/users/ quigley/
Idl/Idl_schmitt/Expt:/raid/users/quigley/Idl/Idl_schmitt/F2D / etc
etc


Mark
Re: PATH separator for Macs [message #59566 is a reply to message #59472] Mon, 31 March 2008 08:55 Go to previous message
Kenneth P. Bowman is currently offline  Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article
<4673d28a-94f9-4dc4-8fc3-c04300773a21@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Mike Galloy wrote:
>
>> IDL> print, path_sep(/search_path)
>> :
>
> Ah, that SEARCH_PATH keyword is what I was looking for!

Yes, being a Unix derivative, path_sep itself is

IDL> print, path_sep()
/

Ken
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