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Re: Where to put (unix) DLMs? [message #25065 is a reply to message #25014]

Fri, 11 May 2001 14:55

Craig Markwardt
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Rob.Preece@msfc.nasa.gov (Rob Preece) writes:
>> Another thought is to have a separate "site" DLM directory. That
>> requires the user to set their IDL_DLM_PATH environment variable
>> before running IDL. This works, unless users are in heterogeneous
>> environment (ie, like my lab's), in which case they won't know *which*
>> directory to set it to ahead of time. Sadly, the IDL system variable
>> !DLM_PATH cannot be set at runtime, so there is no way to discover it
>> on the fly.
>
> Too true, perhaps it's worth a note to RSI to put in a change request?
>

I think RSI is responding. I understand that the next version of IDL
will have a feature to make this easier. Now all that is needed for
everybody to upgrade to IDL 5.5 immediately, right? :-)

Craig

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