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Re: *really* online help for IDL? [message #61521]

Mon, 21 July 2008 15:37

Tom Roche
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On Jul 21, 6:13 pm, biophys <biop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/home.html

Thanks!

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Re: *really* online help for IDL? [message #61522 is a reply to message #61521]

Mon, 21 July 2008 15:21

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On Jul 21, 4:13 pm, biophys <biop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/home.html

This is for IDL 6.4, but luckily not much has changed. I still
frequently use IDL 6.4's IDL Assistant to view the documentation. I'm
a bit worried what will happen when IDL 7.1 comes out and makes the
6.4 documentation even more dated.

Mike
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Re: *really* online help for IDL? [message #61523 is a reply to message #61522]

Mon, 21 July 2008 15:13

biophys
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Registered: July 2004

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http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/home.html

On Jul 21, 3:03 pm, Tom Roche <tlro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to IDL and very reliant on the online help. Unfortunately I
> don't have IDL installed locally, so I'm ssh-ing into another site.
> Unfortunately that site forces me to first ssh into a login node, then
> ssh into a box I can actually use. With all this ssh tunnelling going
> on, sometimes when I do
>
> IDL> ?
>
> I get the help browser, and sometimes I don't--and the probably of
> failure seems to increase with login time. I'm wondering, is there a
> URI with the IDL 7 (or other recent version) help mounted statically?
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Ro...@pobox.com>

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Re: *really* online help for IDL? [message #61620 is a reply to message #61522]

Mon, 21 July 2008 15:39

Tom Roche
Messages: 11
Registered: July 2008

Junior Member

On Jul 21, 4:13 pm, biophys <biop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/home.html

On Jul 21, 6:21 pm, "mgal...@gmail.com" <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is for IDL 6.4, but luckily not much has changed.

Thanks for asserting that: I know little about IDL, much less
about version deltas.

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