| Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone? [message #23312] |
Wed, 17 January 2001 08:45  |
Nick Bower
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Registered: June 1999
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Nice pages - I did look at those originally. There are a couple of important
problems though.
You are distributing the separate routines, but have a broken link to the
tarball (the preferred method of downloading). So I missed the little "source
code" links in the separate routine pages, after finding the main download link
didn't work. How about tarring up those rouintes and providing a local link to
the tarball? :)
Most importantly however, some information is required on your page that states
you are distributing modified versions of the routines - they say v1.2 but they
*aren't*. I have the original version 1.2 distribution and it isn't the same
(mine has the strtok problem). Maybe call yours 1.21?
This is kinda important because I (and other new users) who are unfamiliar with
the strtok debacle will not know that the 1.2 distribution floating around is
different to yours, which contains renamed functions.
I didn't know the problem was strtok, so wasted 2 hours trying to read the code
for bugs. :-(
If we're worried about breaking the law here by first asking for Matt's
permission, well as far as i can see, the copyright doesn't belong to Matt
anyway. So since Joern is already distributing.... ;)
Craig - I saw your offer. Maybe if Joern doesn't want to fix up the versioning
you could and redistribute on your page?
cheers, nick.
Joern Wilms wrote:
> In article <onbst8eczg.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>,
> Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
>>> Nick Bower (bowern@ses.curtin.edu.au) writes:
>>>
>>>> This really sucks and it's most unfortunate that such a well-known
>>>> package like this has been inadvertently clobbered without a hint of
>>>> documentation.
>>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> Yes, STRTOK was one of the things I mentioned in my rant a few days
>> ago. As I understand, STRTOK, was and is an undocumented built-in
>> function. And obviously, is incompatible with the version in
>> TextoIDL.
>>
>> I have done a little research. It does indeed seem that Mr. Craig's
>> host of TextoIDL, coma.berkeley.edu has gone off-line. I cannot find
>> him in the on-line UC Berkeley directory, and the Berekely whois
>> server does not respond. His web page is still up
>> (http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mcraig/). Apparently he's a real
>> kayaker.
>
> A while back I was in contact with Matthew Craig and we were allowed to host
> textoidl at
>
> http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/software/idl/textoidl/index.ht ml
>
> I have not heard from him since, but the code on the web-page runs on 5.3
>
> Joern
>
>>
>> I would be glad to host TextoIDL on my web page. It can be
>> distributed without modifications no problem. However the terms of
>> redistribution forbid changes, so we couldn't fix the STRTOK problem.
>>
>> Is there anybody here from the UC Berkeley Astronomy department who
>> knows what happened to Mr. Craig? I have sent a note to his former
>> email address. We will see what happens.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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>> Craig B. Markwardt, Ph.D. EMAIL: craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu
>> Astrophysics, IDL, Finance, Derivatives | Remove "net" for better response
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> Univ. Tuebingen, Institute for Astronomy D-72074 Tuebingen
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