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Re: Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X [message #36359 is a reply to message #36269]

Thu, 04 September 2003 10:04

pford
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adams_forum@yahoo.ca (Adam) wrote in message news:<6f1027e6.0309030829.854e896@posting.google.com>...
> I've read in the IDL documentation that a software requirement for IDL
> 6.0 on a Mac is the X11 window manager which can be downloaded from
> Apple's website. Is this the same as OroborosX? This computer
> currently has OroborosX which runs IDL from within it, but I was
> wondering if there might be a simpler, cleaner way to do it now with
> IDL 6.

If I understand your questions correctly, (1)the X11 from Apple Inc is
not the same as OroborosX. (2) Apple's X11 is considerable faster for
graphics and (3) Apple's X11 does not appear to be as "stabile." I
have had to quit and restart X11 when I have had an IDL error(not bug)
bomb the program.

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		Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X By: adams_forum on Wed, 03 September 2003 09:29
		Re: Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X By: adams_forum on Fri, 05 September 2003 11:07
		Re: Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X By: MKatz843 on Thu, 04 September 2003 17:30
		Re: Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X By: Karl Schultz on Thu, 04 September 2003 14:06
		Re: Installing IDL 6.0 on Mac OS X By: pford on Thu, 04 September 2003 10:04

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