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Re: library and online help [message #38884 is a reply to message #38883]

Wed, 07 April 2004 08:29

Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003

Senior Member

> how can I add and IDL library (taken somewhere from the web) to the
> standard path of my IDL distribution, so that each time I call a
> procedure/function that is in the library, IDL automatically find it?
> Do I have to put such library in some directory? where? (I use linux).

You need to add the path of the library to your IDL_PATH environmental
variable. A typical IDL_PATH will look like
<IDL_DEFAULT>:/path/to/include:+/another/path/to/include

<IDL_DEFAULT> is a special path which refers to the core IDL library.
Following that is a colon delimited list of all of the various paths you
want IDL to automatically search. If you place a '+' in front of one of
the directories, all subdirectories will also be included.

All you have to do is set the IDL_PATH variable in your shell resource
file (.bashrc for bash or .cshrc for csh) and IDL should be able to
automatically find everything.

> Just a drop. I have got the new IDL version, but the "old" online help
> doesn't work anymore :-( Is it right???
> Only that nasty and NON user-friendly acrobat manual ...

On Linux, the nasty acrobat manual is all that RSI provides. However,
if you can get your hands on the Windows idl.chm help file, you can view
that with the xchm program which you can download from
http://xchm.sourceforge.net. I find this much easier than the ugly
acrobat help files.

-Mike

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		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:45
		Re: library and online help By: Steve.Morris on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:16
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 09:10
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:59
		Re: library and online help By: James Kuyper on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:28
		Re: library and online help By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:29
		Re: library and online help By: kklare on Tue, 20 April 2004 19:16
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:02
		Re: library and online help By: savoie on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:55
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:58

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