| Re: IDL and UNIX setenv [message #25427] |
Mon, 18 June 2001 01:55  |
nmw
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In article , "Daniel Peduzzi" <peduzzi@mediaone.net> writes:
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> I have an executable (compiled from C) which I'd like to
> run from within IDL using SPAWN. However, I'd like to refer
> to the executable without prepending a pathname:
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> IDL> spawn, "myprog", result
>
> instead of
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> IDL>spawn,"/usr1/guest/bin/myprog", result
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> I tried to append the "/usr1/guest/bin/" directory to my UNIX
> path before starting an IDL session, but the path information
> doesn't seem to be propagated into IDL.
>
I'm pretty sure it uses PATH to determine the location of the
program.
Try checking your PATH carefully to make sure that you haven't added
it incorrectly. If you can run "myprog" from the command line you
should be able to run it from within IDL.
What do you get if you run :
IDL> spawn,'echo $PATH'
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
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