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Re: IDL 8 .compile Command [message #72821 is a reply to message #72815]

Mon, 11 October 2010 09:43

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Chris Torrence writes:

> I had to dig pretty deep in the source control to figure this one out.
> It's an undocumented switch to .compile that forces IDL to ignore
> environment variables (e.g. $HOME) within the filepath. Normally, on
> Unix, you could do something like .compile $HOME/foo.pro and this
> would work fine. However, someone had complained that if they had $
> within their directory names then the IDL Workbench was unable to
> compile files within that directory. Since the Workbench already knows
> the full path to the file, there is no need to honor $xyz environment
> variables.

Thanks, Chris. I appreciate it. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Any idea what's up with the WShow command?
That's a weird one!

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		Re: IDL 8 .compile Command By: David Fanning on Mon, 11 October 2010 12:57
		Re: IDL 8 .compile Command By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 11 October 2010 12:48
		Re: IDL 8 .compile Command By: David Fanning on Mon, 11 October 2010 09:43
		Re: IDL 8 .compile Command By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 11 October 2010 09:09
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