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Re: IDL vs PV-WAVE [message #2663 is a reply to message #2658]

Thu, 25 August 1994 06:59

Utermann[1]
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In article <33gdbb$b7f@hacgate2.hac.com>, tonyg@hdos.hac.com (Tony Grusczak) writes:
|> As of last year, one of the biggest differences between IDL and PV-WAVE was the
|> fact that you could not call IDL routines from within a C or Fortran application,
|> something which PV-WAVE allows you to do pretty easily. For instance, if are
|> writing an application in Fortran and have a data array you wish to plot, you can
|> just pass it to PV-WAVE in memory and use one of its plotting routines. With IDL,
|> you would have to store the array to disk, then invoke IDL to read the data and
|> plot it. Perhaps RSI has added such features to IDL recently.
|>

This can be done both from Fortran and C via Remote Procedure Calls.

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		Re: IDL vs PV-WAVE By: jacobsen on Fri, 26 August 1994 06:23
		Re: IDL vs PV-WAVE By: candey on Thu, 25 August 1994 17:09
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