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Re: what am I doing wrong? [message #13035 is a reply to message #3602]

Mon, 05 October 1998 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org> writes:

> a couple of things... It is a top level script but there are no
> continuation lines that I can see... (true, my parser is *quite*
> different than IDL's :-)

> second, what happens depends on how I run it, which I find quite strange
> but then again, I'm a relative newbie at IDL...

> I've made some changes, while trying to figure things out. Here is the
> new script in it's entirety... (note I realize some of this [especially
> the case statement] aren't the best way to do things but like I said,
> I'm a newbie and I'm trying some things out and this is stripped down
> procedure anyway...)

(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.

William Thompson

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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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