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Re: OPENW and environment variables in IDL 5.5 [message #33892 is a reply to message #33889]

Tue, 04 February 2003 12:51

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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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?

Bill Thompson

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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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