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Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) [message #29266 is a reply to message #29176]

Fri, 08 February 2002 01:16

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Nigel Wade wrote:
>
> Paul van Delst wrote:
>
>> Reimar Bauer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have problems accessing data over a relative paths.
>>>
>>> $ ls ../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_output/test.dat
>>> gives ../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_output/test.dat
>>>
>>>
> print,file_test('../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_ output/test.dat')
>>> 0
>>>
>>> Is there a work around known?
>>
>> Things like
>>
>> print,file_test('~/data/mo_output/modell_original_output/tes t.dat')
>>
>> won't work either.
>>
>> bummer.
>>
>> paulv
>>
>
> I can understand that. ~ is a shell expansion (and only in some shells) so
> if it doesn't use a sub-process and a shell which understands ~, ~ won't
> get expanded.
>
> But it would be useful (at least on UNIX, I'm not sure what Windows would
> make of it).

This has worked by idl5.4.1 and it is not described anywhere that it
should
not work in idl5.5.

Reimar

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		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 February 2002 10:40
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 07 February 2002 06:29
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 February 2002 03:33
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: thompson on Thu, 07 February 2002 15:28
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