comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » IDL & Win95 -- arrggh

Home » Public Forums » archive » IDL & Win95 -- arrggh

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh [message #6578 is a reply to message #6512]

Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00

thompson
Messages: 584
Registered: August 1991

Senior Member

"A. Scott Denning" <scott@abyss.atmos.colostate.edu> writes:

> Mark Hadfield wrote:
>>
>> mallozzi@ssl.msfc.nasa.gov wrote:
>>>
>>> I just tried to port a large IDL package that runs fine on VMS, IRIX,
>>> Sun, and Linux to Win95. It appears that IDL does not recognize the
>>> long filenames that Win95 uses....
>>>
>>> I was using v3.6, but a colleague told me this also happens under 4.0.1
>>
>> Yes, it does occur under 4.0.1. Under NT (and presumably under Win95 also)
>> many routines seem to accept long file names if you append a space on the
>> end, eg,
>>
>> OPENR, 1, 'alongfilename.dat'+' '
>>

> How about long procedure names? I would think this would be even worse
> than the long data file names. I have a huge idl application I've been
> working on for almost 3 years under various flavors of unix and on the
> Mac (> 12,000 lines of code). Lots of procedure names like
> "define_colors.pro", "set_contours.pro", "widget_window.pro," etc that
> don't conform to DOS limits.

I haven't tried to use IDL under the newer flavors of Windows, but in Windows 3
one could reference a procedure by its name, and it would find it with the 8.3
filename. E.g., calling set_contours would look for a file called
"set_cont.pro". This causes problems when one has multiple routines which
start with the same eight characters.

I don't consider that IDL for Windows will be useful until long filenames are
supported. Otherwise, we have no sensible path for distributing our software
to those platforms the way we currently do with Unix and VMS users. Thus, I
discourage those who wish to use our software from buying IDL for Windows.

Bill Thompson

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: mallozzi on Tue, 09 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Mirko Vukovic on Mon, 15 July 1996 00:00
		RE: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: mallozzi on Sat, 13 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: thompson on Fri, 12 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Peter Mason on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: thompson on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: A. Scott Denning on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00
		Re: IDL & Win95 -- arrggh By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 July 1996 00:00

Previous Topic:	collapsing 3-d arrays
Next Topic:	Re: size (in bytes) of integer, float, double, etc.

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Thu Oct 09 22:14:33 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.20388 seconds