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Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients [message #70341 is a reply to message #70339]

Sun, 04 April 2010 11:30

mankoff
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Registered: March 2004

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On Apr 4, 7:19 am, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
>
> I expect that this is some sort of permissions problem, but I have
> the feeling that ITTVIS does not have a Mac configuration like this,
> so the problem is new to them. We have been waiting a while for a
> response, and it is cutting into our productivity to not have
> access to Help.
>

Can you launch the help app via any combination of command line calls?
If so, write a procedure that does this and tell users to run the
procedure rather than the "?" command.

I have the following alias to launch the IDL Helper.app from the unix
(not IDL) command line. It does not bring up help for a specific
procedure, but the search field is highlighted so I just type a few
characters, hit enter, and then I'm viewing the procedure. Note also
that "doc_library" might be a good temporary substitute to get help
for a specific procedure.

alias idlhelp='/Users/mankoff/local/itt/idl64/bin/bin.darwin.i386/
idl_assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/idl_assistant -server -profile /Users/
mankoff/local/itt/idl64/help/online_help/idl.adp &'

-k.

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		Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 06 April 2010 10:59
		Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 06 April 2010 10:57
		Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients By: bokubo on Mon, 05 April 2010 15:02
		Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients By: Maxwell Peck on Sun, 04 April 2010 14:36
		Re: Using IDL Help on Mac OS clients By: mankoff on Sun, 04 April 2010 11:30

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