| Re: Best platform for IDL 6.2? [message #46333 is a reply to message #46332] |
Wed, 16 November 2005 14:35   |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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> Sorry to quibble Michael, but what you're referring to, I think, is
> IDL's lack of a *console-mode* executable on Windows (and I did mention
> this lack, in connection with IDLWAVE integration).
Call it what you will (console mode or whatever), but we agree. I read
over your previous comment without really processing it because it
started with "Can't integrate properly with (X)emacs and IDLWAVE." Byt,
yeah, we're talking about the same thing.
> However it is not a console-mode program so it always opens a GUI and it
> cannot interact with the calling process via stdin and stdout.
Exactly.
> And by the way, people, please don't refer to the Windows console-mode
> command-line and batch-file processor, cmd.exe as a "DOS prompt". OK,
> Microsoft have been known refer to it in this way, but it has nothing to
> do with DOS.
My, we're picky today, aren't we? ;-) It's just a name that got handed
down from days of yore without being changed. It's like how we still
"dial" phone numbers even though rotary phones disappeared quite a while
ago.
-Mike
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