Re: IDL Virtual Machine--Forget It [message #63170 is a reply to message #63072] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 14:10   |
R.G. Stockwell
Messages: 363 Registered: July 1999
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"David Fanning" <news@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.23712b81a911d8298974b@news.giganews.com...
> Folks,
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> Maybe you, like me, saw the IDL Virtual Machine as a way
> to get IDL more noticed by writing IDL applications that
> you could give away to colleagues, who could download the
> freely available IDL Virtual Machine to run them. Well,
> think again.
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> I just got off the phone to IDL Technical Support.
> According to the representative I talked to, this
> "might have worked this way in IDL 6.3, but it doesn't
> work this way now." Now, apparently, the only way
> to get the Virtual Machine is to install the entire
> IDL distribution.
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this has got to be a mistake. OMG.
Cheers,
bob
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