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Re: IDL or PV~Wave? [message #1023]

Tue, 25 May 1993 09:09

pendleton
Messages: 17
Registered: February 1992

Junior Member

> Well that is quite a set of accusations. In my 12+ years of IDL programming I
> can never recall IDL crashing the system or "locking up my workstation". I did
> see an alpha release of IDL for the PC bomb once but, my IDL for Windows has
> performed flawlessly.
>

Under IDL version 1, there used to be a neat trick using multiple "$" (spawn)
commands which would reliably crash dump a VAX. No privs required.

This has since been cleaned up, of course.

> --
> Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
> Internet: zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681-0001
> Packet: ko4lw@wb0tax.va.usa
--
Jim Pendleton, Programmer Analyst/Technical Services Specialist
GRO/OSSE, Dept. Physics & Astronomy
Northwestern University
j-pendleton@nwu.edu (708) 491-2748

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		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: pendleton on Tue, 25 May 1993 09:09
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: zawodny on Tue, 25 May 1993 04:35
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: thompson on Mon, 24 May 1993 14:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: alan on Mon, 24 May 1993 08:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: landers on Fri, 21 May 1993 13:12
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: knight on Fri, 21 May 1993 09:44

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