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Re: Virtual machine question [message #60773]

Sun, 15 June 2008 07:39

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 14, 3:58 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> clivecoo...@gmail.com writes:
>> So i have a virtual machine application and i want to be able to pass
>> a path to it when i run it. So for example,
>
>> pro software, data_path
>
>> blah
>
>> blah
>
>> end
>
>> i then save this as a virtual machine program -> software.sav and i
>> run it as,
>
>> idl -vm=path+software.sav
>
>> So my question is how do i pass the data_path?
>
> You can't pass it directly into the program in the way
> you are trying to do it. Rather, you have to use a
> -arg command line switch on the IDL command you are using
> and pass it that way.
>
> Inside your program, you can recover the command line argument
> (or arguments) using the function COMMAND_LINE_ARGS.
>
> See the on-line help for "command line switches" for details.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

You can also use environment variables, if appropriate.

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