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Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? [message #22907 is a reply to message #22345]

Tue, 12 December 2000 06:06

Paul van Delst
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Registered: March 1997

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landsman@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Last month, Paul van Delst wrote:
>
>> One annoying thing I have noticed is that on my linux box I can now
> only have one session
>> of IDL running. Previously every other platform/OS on which I have
> used IDL (that had a
>> single user license) I could open as many IDL sessions as I wanted
> (as the same user). But
>> now I get the "Do you want to wait for a license?" message and then
> into the 7-minute demo
>
> I've finally upgraded to V5.4 on Solaris 2.6 and I am finding the same
> behaviour. Bernard Puc reported that this problem was known to RSI,
> but has anything been done about it? If not, then I am hurrying back
> to V5.3. Thanks,

I notified RSI of this behaviour and their tech support got back to me the same day. The fix was to
switch to evaluation mode rather than license manager mode. I will have to give them a call in 180
days to renew the setup - unless they release 5.4.x with the fix before then. Either way, I can get
done what I need to get done via multiple sessions if IDL.

The RSI Tech Support folks were very quick in their response - despite the "we are receiving more
than the usual number of requests" email I got right after submitting mine. It took about 5 minutes
of phone time to fix....about 3 of those was me asking what the problem was. At first I thought how
could this not be discovered in a beta test - but beta versions are more than likely installed in
eval mode (right?) so the problem wouldn't show up. This software development business shure can be
tricky.

paulv

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		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 08 November 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Bernard Puc on Wed, 08 November 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 07 November 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 12 December 2000 06:06
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Joseph B. Gurman on Tue, 26 December 2000 17:14
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: landsman on Mon, 11 December 2000 15:30
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: mole6e23 on Thu, 21 December 2000 10:47
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: mole6e23 on Thu, 21 December 2000 14:28
		Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing? By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 21 December 2000 11:18

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