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Re: alias in idl [message #44053 is a reply to message #44052]

Mon, 16 May 2005 14:53

R.Bauer
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Koh Leong Tah wrote:

> hi all,
> i have a directory which I happen to restore structures on pretty often
> and i was wondering if there's a way to have a shortcut name to that
> directory that i can setup, maybe in .idlinit?
> thanks,
> kl

Hi,
I like to add thats you could set up a system var in your IDL_STARTUP file.
defsysv,'!sdata','/tmp'

Sysvars are global
IDL> help,!sdata
<Expression> STRING = '/tmp'

IDL> cd, !sdata

cheers

Reimar

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