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Re: idl crash with ps_end and fixps [message #78711] Wed, 14 December 2011 06:18
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Vincent writes:

> I am using the ps_start/ps_end procedure, and had no special issues
> with it until today. When I tried to save my plot I got an IDL fatal
> error...
> So I tried to find to which point the procedures went before crashing,
> and eventually it appears to happen at the end of the fixps.pro called
> by ps_end.pro. At the very end of the procedure, since no output
> filename is given, it enters the last if, and I found that the issue
> comes from this call :
>
> File_Move, out_filename, in_filename
>
> The out_filename and in_filename seem fine to me (respectively :
> C:\Users\Vincent Bourrier\AppData\Local\Temp\absorption_tmp.ps
> and
> F:\Images\absorption.ps)
> Since this example worked perfectly fine before, would someone have an
> idea of the issue?

What version of IDL are we talking about? When you say
it "worked perfectly find before", do you mean in this
particular version of IDL or another? I presume you have
checked your file permissions to be sure you can actually
write a file in that directory?

Cheers,

David


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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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