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Re: HOW [message #23491 is a reply to message #23376]

Thu, 25 January 2001 18:38

Mark Chan
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Registered: November 2000

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Anyone dare to answer my questions? Email me directly if needed. What is the
function of .so file and what is it's intended use?

MC

"Mark Chan" <chanm@cadvision.com> wrote in message
news:94o6t1$1vl$1@news3.cadvision.com...
> I am not a lawyer!
>
> Could someone please explain to me what 'replacing the IDL 5.4 IDL_gif.so
> library and DLM files with the ones from IDL 5.3' means?
>
> I have never done anything like this before. Will like to learn this more.
>
> I have 5.4 and am using 5.3 because of this gif problem. For the time
being
> I don't need to use this trick but don't mind knowing more.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Chan
>
>
> "Craig Markwardt" <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message
> news:ony9w79q8j.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu...
>>
>> I was visiting someone with IDL 5.4 on Linux today. I mentioned the
>> lack of GIF support, and my friend was surprised. We confirmed that
>> when we tried to open a GIF, we got an error message. However there
>> is an idl_gif.so library file, and WRITE_GIF, READ_GIF, etc still
>> exists as procedures in the standard library.
>>
>> We tried the simple experiment of replacing the IDL 5.4 idl_gif.so
>> library and DLM files with the ones from IDL 5.3.
>>
>> It worked! We were able at least to read old GIFs into IDL with no
>> problem. I didn't try writing any GIFs however.
>>
>> Has anybody else tried this and got it to work? For previous
>> purchasers of IDL, this at least is a good sign. :-)
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> --
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		IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 19 January 2001 13:38
		Re: HOW By: Mark Chan on Wed, 24 January 2001 19:15
		Re: HOW By: Mark Chan on Thu, 25 January 2001 18:38
		Re: HOW By: marc schellens[1] on Mon, 05 February 2001 22:55
		Re: HOW By: davidf on Wed, 24 January 2001 19:53
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: R.Bauer on Mon, 22 January 2001 08:24
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Fri, 26 January 2001 15:36
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: davidf on Fri, 26 January 2001 14:47
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Todd Clements on Fri, 26 January 2001 14:31
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Fri, 26 January 2001 13:01
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: davidf on Thu, 25 January 2001 20:21
		Re: IDL 5.4 and gifs By: Richard French on Thu, 25 January 2001 19:46

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