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Re: IDL slow to load command prompt [message #62808 is a reply to message #62807]

Fri, 03 October 2008 10:36

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article
<0a97df68-348e-4b6d-a63f-0b465b1ec401@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
dismays@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I type idl at the command line it takes about 20 seconds for the
> IDL> prompt to come up. Is this just a problem with the computer?
> Or is there something I can do to speed this up? It is IDL Version
> 6.2 (linux x86 m32).
>
> Thanks!
> Leila

IDL searches through the directories in your search path at
startup and caches the results. This can take a while if the
search tree is large or the directories are mounted from
a remote server.

If you have a large source tree in your search path, you
could test whether that is the problem by temporarily removing
part or all of it from your search path and starting IDL.

You can also use PATH_CACHE to update your cache and see
how long that takes.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: IDL slow to load command prompt By: David Klassen on Fri, 03 October 2008 18:10
		Re: IDL slow to load command prompt By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 03 October 2008 10:36
		Re: IDL slow to load command prompt By: Brian Larsen on Fri, 03 October 2008 11:02

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