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Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense [message #8058 is a reply to message #8037]

Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00

D.Kennedy
Messages: 26
Registered: January 1997

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In article <32F2232E.3F09@cdc.noaa.gov>,
Andy Loughe <afl@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> It's elementary, my dear Watson. What I wrote was this:
>>
>> ang = '!6!sA!r!u!9 %!6!n'
>>
>> Take out your Geek to English dictionary. You can find it
>> in Chapter 9 of the IDL User's Guide. This sentence is easily
>> parsed:
>
>
> "Geek" to English dictionary?
>
> Just what are you implying about those of us who use IDL! ;-) ;-)

He may have a point though!
Actually I was a little surprised at how horrible^H^H^H^H^H^H non-intuitive
this aspect of IDL is, after all the plotting routines are so advanced and
the array handling is so naturalistic.

By the way, anyone use IDL hyperhelp on a Sun workstation?
You want to be careful, I discovered a fool proof way to horribly crash
my console totally yesterday. Even beyond reboot help!

(1) Open an xterm and rlogin to machine with IDL license.
(2) Start hyperhelp
(3) Go to say, "Graphics system variables" and try to pull down the
little menu gizmo. Obviously I'm a bit vague about what happens next as my
machine crashes at this point.

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David Kennedy, Dept. of Pure & Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast
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		Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: davidf on Thu, 30 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: rosentha on Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: D.Kennedy on Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: davidf on Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: Struan Gray on Wed, 05 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: pit on Mon, 03 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: steinhh on Thu, 06 February 1997 00:00

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