| Re: Path Difficulties [message #33036 is a reply to message #33035] |
Wed, 27 November 2002 09:57  |
Elias J. Hunter
Messages: 5
Registered: October 2002
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Sorry,
I figured out the difficulty. Path definitions have changed some in the
new version.(Its amazing what the manual will tell you). I had an
enviromental variable set that was a holdover from idl 5.5.
Again, sorry for the unecessary post.
Eli
Elias J. Hunter wrote:
> So,
>
> I recently installed IDL 5.6 on a Sun system running Solaris 8.0 and I
> seemed to have developed a difficulty locating procedures in my IDL
> Path. I set it pretty much the same as I had in IDL 5.5. I have a
> function called make_labels in a procedure directory in my home
> directory. Naturally, I want this directory in my idl path. S
>
> Now, when I run a procedure which calls make_labels immediately after
> opening IDL. I get a
>
> % Variable is undefined: MAKE_LABELS.
>
> So it is not finding make_labels and treating it as a variable. As if
> the path is not correct.
>
> If I then remove the path and insert it again in file>preferences>paths,
> everthing works as it should.
>
> Obviously I don't really want to do this every time I open IDL. The path
> shows up in file>preferences>paths when I start up IDL, so it does't
> seem to be problem with saving preferences.
>
> Is there something I'm missing in IDL 5.6?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eli
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