Re: Message From RSI VP of Engineering [message #27347 is a reply to message #27225] |
Thu, 18 October 2001 06:56   |
Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1]
Messages: 56 Registered: February 2000
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JD Smith <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> writes:
> "Bernard K." wrote:
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>> I am not familiar with command line IDL on Unix implementations. Could
>> someone elaborate a bit more on what an Aqua-less IDL would probably
>> look like? Just a command line tool that would ressemble using the
>> actual command line in IDL for OS9? Apart from loosing the IDL
>> developper environment and its associated menus (file edit search run
>> project macros etc) what else would be missing?
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> A Unix version for OSX would certainly not be command-line only. It
> would probably even have an IDLDE... only it would be a Unix/X-Windows
> program, so it would look more like a program running on Solaris or
> Linux, and would otherwise be dissimilar from programs running under
> Aqua.
But on the other hand, you'd be able to take advantage of the best IDL
development environment available anywhere, called idlwave, no??
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