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Re: How do I get IDL to see that my procedure exists? [message #12749 is a reply to message #12690]

Fri, 04 September 1998 00:00

mallors
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In article <MPG.10576deb16a589f598968d@news.frii.com>,
davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
> Bruce Bowler (bbowler@bigelow.org) writes:
>
>> I wrote an IDL procedure to do what I want. I put it in a directory
>> called /usr/users/Bowler/idl and called it anyData.pro. The first line
>> of the file is
>> .
>> .
>> .
>
> Well, Sir, you are working on an operating system that is
> case sensitive. Thus the file "anyData.pro" is different from
> a file named "anydata.pro". As it happens, when you type a
> name of a procedure at the IDL command line:
>
> IDL> junk
>
> and IDL has to go looking for a file with that name
> (ie. junk.pro), it *always* looks for files with
> lowercase names.
>
> Name your file "anydata.pro" and you will be in business.
>

I also ran across this with automatic object/struct
definitions. It seems to me to be an unneccessary limitation
that one must name an object something like

objwithlongname__define.pro

instead of

objWithLongName__define.pro

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		How do I get IDL to see that my procedure exists? By: Bruce Bowler on Wed, 02 September 1998 00:00
		Re: How do I get IDL to see that my procedure exists? By: davidf on Fri, 04 September 1998 00:00
		Re: How do I get IDL to see that my procedure exists? By: mallors on Fri, 04 September 1998 00:00

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