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Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE [message #1777 is a reply to message #1772]

Mon, 31 January 1994 08:00

offenbrg
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sterne@dublin.llnl.gov (Philip Sterne) writes:

>>>> >> "mark" == mark rivers <rivers@bnlux1.bnl.gov> writes:

> mark> Is there a way to find out from within a procedure whether one is
> mark> running PV-WAVE or IDL? I need to call LINKNLOAD if I am running
> mark> PV-WAVE or CALL_EXTERNAL if I am running IDL. The !version system
> mark> variable doesn't seem to have this information.

> How about looking at the variable !PROMPT ?

> In Wave, it is "WAVE> ", and in IDL I think it is "IDL> ". This
> variable can be overridden by the user, but as long as you stick with
> the defaults, this would appear to be a way of telling them apart.

In IDL, and I think PV-WAVE as well, you can set the prompt to be whatever
you want. I can set my !PROMPT to be "WAVE> " just as easily as I could set
it to "IDL> ".

The simplest way I can come up with is to check the on-line help.
?call_external
should give you a littany about the call_external function in IDL and not much
of anything in PV-WAVE, and
?linknload
should do the reverse. (If you have both IDL and PV-WAVE running on the same
system, you might get both sets of help, although I don't think so.)

Joel

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		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: thompson on Mon, 31 January 1994 07:19
		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: knipp on Mon, 31 January 1994 08:11
		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: landers on Mon, 31 January 1994 15:21
		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: offenbrg on Mon, 31 January 1994 08:00
		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: sterne on Sun, 30 January 1994 17:36
		Re: How to tell if I'm running IDL or PV-WAVE By: ft on Sat, 29 January 1994 14:24

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