| Re: IDL for Solaris 2.5? [message #6663] |
Wed, 31 July 1996 00:00 |
mday
Messages: 2
Registered: July 1996
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Peter Clinch <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> writes:
> To cover their backs, software vendors describe these as "supported
> releases" where they can reasonably guarantee that the code they wrote
> will do what they say. It *should* also work on subsequent releases,
> and in the case of Solaris, does. Solaris 2.5 is superior to 2.3 in
> just about every way: it's kernel is smaller, faster and more reliable,
> you get the CDE windowing system, NFS 3.0 rather than 2.0. etc. etc.
> etc.
> Summary: no problem running IDL or Wave on an Ultra 1.
Since you mention CDE, has anyone else noticed that the IDL pickfile()
function seems to have a problem with CDE? On all of our 2.5 and
2.5.1 hosts, if an IDL program uses pickfile with a filter, and there
are no matching files in the directory that it is started in, the
"Files" field gets into weird state and won't properly display *any*
filenames when you navigate into a directory with matching files.
Setting the current directory to one with files that match the filter
cures the problem.
I haven't submitted a bug report, because it was my experience when
running IDL on 2.4, that anytime I had a display problem RSI would feel
the need to inform me that 2.4 wasn't a supported OS. Since we adopted
2.5 and CDE fairly early on, I didn't need the aggravation of hearing this
message again. Perhaps now there are enough 2.5 (and CDE?) users that
RSI might address the problem.
--
Mark Day
Magnetic Resonance Science Center mday@mrsc.ucsf.edu
University of California, San Francisco
(415) 476-1068
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| Re: IDL for Solaris 2.5? [message #6667 is a reply to message #6663] |
Wed, 31 July 1996 00:00  |
David Foster
Messages: 341
Registered: January 1996
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dlwilkes@gamera.syr.edu (Debra L. Wilkes) wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm looking at buying a Sun Ultra 1 that will only
> run the Solaris 2.5 operating system. I'd like
> to run IDL on this machine. But IDL only runs under
> Solaris 2.3. Do any of you have experience with this?
> Am I out of luck or will IDl run on this operating system?
Some time ago a representative from Research Systems posted
an announcement that IDL had been tested under Solaris 2.5 .
We currently use IDL under 2.3 and 2.5, with no problems.
Dave Foster
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
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| Re: IDL for Solaris 2.5? [message #6670 is a reply to message #6663] |
Wed, 31 July 1996 00:00 |
Peter Clinch
Messages: 98
Registered: April 1996
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Debra L. Wilkes wrote:
> I'm looking at buying a Sun Ultra 1 that will only
> run the Solaris 2.5 operating system. I'd like
> to run IDL on this machine. But IDL only runs under
> Solaris 2.3. Do any of you have experience with this?
> Am I out of luck or will IDl run on this operating system?
The reference to Solaris 2.3 for IDL (and Solaris 2.4 for PV~Wave)
doesn't mean they won't run on other releases, but that was the release
the version was developed on.
To cover their backs, software vendors describe these as "supported
releases" where they can reasonably guarantee that the code they wrote
will do what they say. It *should* also work on subsequent releases,
and in the case of Solaris, does. Solaris 2.5 is superior to 2.3 in
just about every way: it's kernel is smaller, faster and more reliable,
you get the CDE windowing system, NFS 3.0 rather than 2.0. etc. etc.
etc.
Summary: no problem running IDL or Wave on an Ultra 1.
regards, Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Dundee University & Teaching Hospitals
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 3637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/MedPhys/
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| Re: IDL for Solaris 2.5? [message #6672 is a reply to message #6663] |
Tue, 30 July 1996 00:00 |
gennari
Messages: 25
Registered: April 1994
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Junior Member |
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Debra L. Wilkes (dlwilkes@gamera.syr.edu) wrote:
: Hi,
: I'm looking at buying a Sun Ultra 1 that will only
: run the Solaris 2.5 operating system. I'd like
: to run IDL on this machine. But IDL only runs under
: Solaris 2.3. Do any of you have experience with this?
: Am I out of luck or will IDl run on this operating system?
Deb,
I am running IDLv4.0.1/ENVIv2.0 on a SPARC 20 under Solaris 2.5
with no apparent glitches.
Scott
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Scott Gennari voice (808) 956 5392
System Engineer pager (808) 288 6918
Univ of Hawaii, Dept. of ICS fax (808) 956 9399
2565 The Mall, Keller 304A email gennari@Hawaii.Edu
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
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