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Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 [message #33889 is a reply to message #33888]

Tue, 04 February 2003 13:41

Craig Markwardt
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thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov (William Thompson) writes:
> Bruce Bowler <bbowler@bigelow.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:56:37 -0500, Liam Gumley put fingers to keyboard
>> and said:
>
>>> Has anyone noticed odd behavior in IDL 5.5 (IRIX 6.5) when opening a
>>> file with an environment variable in the argument? For example:
>>>
>>> IDL> openw, lun, '$HOME/test.dat', /get_lun % OPENW: Unable to expand
>>> wildcards in file path. % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>>>
>>> This command works just fine in IDL 5.3
>
>> See http://www.rsinc.com/services/output.cfm?tip_id=3299
>
> Thank god I'm still running 5.4. Does anybody know if this bug is fixed in
> 5.6?

Yes, it's fixed in IDL 5.6.

Craig

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		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 February 2003 22:30
		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 04 February 2003 14:24
		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2003 13:59
		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 04 February 2003 13:41
		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: thompson on Tue, 04 February 2003 12:51
		Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 By: Bruce Bowler on Tue, 04 February 2003 11:24

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