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Re: should I get Mac IDL 4 or 5? [message #10116 is a reply to message #10109]

Tue, 21 October 1997 00:00

gurman
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In article <344AEE8F.4B47@shapley.colorado.edu>, Mark Fardal
<fardal@shapley.colorado.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to get IDL for the Mac, since it's cheap for CU students.
> Now, I can only get one release, either IDL 4 or 5. And some
> people have complained about the stability of IDL5 for the
> Mac--tends to crash machines (even with OS8) and so forth. I'm
> not really using the new features of IDL5 right now, although in
> theory it would be nice to have 5 for consistency with the unix boxes
> at work. So are the complaints justified? Does RSI ever release bug
> fixes? And which version should I get?

Yes, RSI does fix bugs, which is why the current release is 5.0.2.
I have not put it through a lot of hoop son the PowerMac, but it does what
I need it to do without crashes, on both a PowerBook and a desktop
machine.

Joe Gurman

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		Re: should I get Mac IDL 4 or 5? By: Helge.Rebhan on Tue, 21 October 1997 00:00
		Re: should I get Mac IDL 4 or 5? By: mgs on Tue, 21 October 1997 00:00
		Re: should I get Mac IDL 4 or 5? By: gurman on Tue, 21 October 1997 00:00
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