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Re: SPAWNing IDL from IDL under UNIX [message #20220 is a reply to message #20157] Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00 Go to previous message
John-David T. Smith is currently offline  John-David T. Smith
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"D. Mattes" wrote:
>
> hello IDL gurus: here's a fun self-referential problem that i REALLY need
> solved. i have a lengthy minimization process coded using IDL. what i
> would like is to allow the user to use my widgets to set minimization
> parameters, etc. and then spawn idl as a UNIX process which runs the
> minimization.
>
> so i would use spawn to set the idl startup file:
> spawn,'setenv IDL_STARTUP my_min_proc'


spawn,'$IDL_DIR/bin/idl my_min_proc'

but now your terminal is taken over by the spawned process.

JD

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