Re: Well, this is interesting...Not! [message #57671 is a reply to message #57670] |
Wed, 19 December 2007 09:02   |
Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157 Registered: April 2002
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David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> I'm beginning to love IDL 7.0!
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> This morning, in my usual way, I started a program that
> has a rather time-consuming FOR loop in it. (I'm processing
> a large data file.) Of course, as soon as I started it,
> I realized I had programmed a big mistake into it, so I
> wanted to stop it. Of course, I'm inside the damn FOR loop,
> so there *is* no stopping it.
ctrl-C has always worked for me (although I might have to wait for it to push it's way to
the front of the queue...)
> So, I just exited IDL. :-)
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> Now I have no IDLDE and my FOR loop is *still* running!
Huh?!?
You know, I don't know how you people do *anything* useful on windows machines. :o)
cheers,
paulv
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