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Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX [message #74409 is a reply to message #74260]

Mon, 10 January 2011 09:30

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Nigel Wade writes:

> Back in the dim recesses of my memory I have a recollection that
> findfile locates files by spawning a subprocess which performs an "ls"
> which captures the output in a temporary file. The temporary file is
> created in a directory defined by some environment variable TMPDIR,
> TEMPDIR or the like, defaulting to /tmp. If this directory does not
> exist, is not writeable (due to permissions, or quota or disk full etc)
> then findfile fails.

Well, hard to say. But I did go through the Coyote Library
this morning to find and change all references to FindFile
to File_Search. All appears well now.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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		Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX By: Nigel Wade on Mon, 10 January 2011 09:03
		Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX By: David Fanning on Mon, 10 January 2011 08:11
		Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX By: wlandsman on Mon, 10 January 2011 08:05
		Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX By: David Fanning on Mon, 10 January 2011 09:30

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