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Re: File_Which What!? [message #33012 is a reply to message #32920]

Thu, 21 November 2002 06:04

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Nigel Wade (nmw@ion.le.ac.uk) writes:

> It works here, with IDL 5.5 on IRIX. (I created a file called "fire.clt" at
> some location in the IDL path and FILE_WHICH found it ok). Looking at the
> source, FILE_WHICH uses FILE_TEST to test for the file. It loops through
> each directory in the path testing for the file in that directory until it
> either succeeds or runs out of entries in the path. Does FILE_TEST indicate
> success if you use that with the full path?

Humm, well, further tests this morning show that the file
can be found if the directory containing it
is *explicitly* on the path. That is, the directory
is named specifically in File->Preferences->Path.
If the directory containing the file is implicitly
on the path (I.e., I have selected a check box for
the parent directory in File->Preferences->Path)
then the file can't be found.

Bummer. :-(

Cheers,

David
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		File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 November 2002 20:28
		Re: File_Which What!? By: rigby on Fri, 22 November 2002 11:16
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:54
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:33
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 06:41
		Re: File_Which What!? By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 20:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 21 November 2002 19:21
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:46
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:39
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 06:04
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 21 November 2002 03:56
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 21 November 2002 00:27
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:40

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