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Re: what am I doing wrong? [message #13031 is a reply to message #3602]

Tue, 06 October 1998 00:00

Bruce Bowler
Messages: 128
Registered: September 1998

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William Thompson wrote:
>
> Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org> writes:
>

(stuff deleted)

>> if I run it as follows...
>
>> # idl
>> idl> .run 6953
>
>> it works fine...
>
>> if I run it like
>
>> # idl 6953
>
>> the results are
>
> (stuff deleted)
>
>> unfortunately, because of the way I need to interact with some other
>> stuff, I really need to run it the second way. What can I do to make it
>> work like the first way? I don't think precompiling will work either as
>> I generate the file "on the fly".
>
> If you're using Unix, then what you need to do is to create a file like the
> following:
>
> #!/bin/csh
> setenv MY_IDL_SCRIPT $argv
> idl << done
> .run $MY_IDL_SCRIPT
> done
>
> Use "chmod +x" to make the file executable, and then you can use this to
> execute whatever IDL script you want.

Unfortunately, as I said before, that won't work in my case. I am
passing this to a third party package that invokes it as

idl xxx

I have no control over that.

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		what am I doing wrong? By: babaka on Thu, 16 February 1995 16:09
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: thompson on Tue, 06 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: steinhh on Tue, 06 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Tue, 06 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: thompson on Mon, 05 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Mon, 05 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: Jeffrey Newmark on Mon, 05 October 1998 00:00
		Re: what am I doing wrong? By: Bruce Bowler on Tue, 06 October 1998 00:00

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