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Re: Path Problems Redux [message #59527 is a reply to message #59526]

Tue, 01 April 2008 11:20

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On Apr 1, 10:27 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> C.E. Ordonez writes:
>> It turns out that when I installed 7.0 over an existing 6.4, the
>> installation "remembered" the name of the old startup file via a system
>> variable (IDL_STARTUP) inside a file named
>
>> C:\Users\Ordonez\.idl\itt\pref-10-idl_7_0-windows\idl.pref
>
> Oh, my Gosh, that's it! That's where it was! You don't know
> how many hours of therapy you saved me from.

This is the location that PREF_SET and PREF_GET save/restore their
preferences. No need to edit this file (technically I suppose it could
change in future versions of IDL), just use PREF_SET. That is the
recommended way to change your preferences.

Mike
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		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 11:23
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 11:20
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: C.E. Ordonez on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:53
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:29
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:13
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:30
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:27
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: C.E. Ordonez on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:19
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:13
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:01
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 08:43
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 April 2008 10:12

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