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Re: Insight... [message #27125]

Thu, 11 October 2001 13:52

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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From: "Pavel A. Romashkin" <pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov>
> Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
>>
>> We have IDL on our SGI system, and a user asked me for Insight which he
said
>> is normally part of IDL.
>
> This user will regret he asked for it, once you have it.
> I am not sure Insight is even part of IDL package anymore.

It was withdrawn from version 5.4 as part of the LZW compression panic.
Quoting this verion's "What's New":

" IDL Insight ï¿½ The Insight application has been removed from IDL. Insight
uses LZW compression for saving compressed project files and therefore can
no longer be included with IDL."

Amongst all the complaints about the loss of GIF (at the same time & for the
same reason) I don't recall a single complaint about Insight. This probably
tells you something!

IIRC, Insight was based on the LIVE_PLOT etc family of visualisation tools,
which are still there. I even use them very occasionally.

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

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		Re: Insight... By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 October 2001 13:52
		Re: Insight... By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 11 October 2001 12:24
		Re: Insight... By: Jaco van Gorkom on Thu, 11 October 2001 14:06
		GIF/TIFF-LZW in 5.5 (sorta) (was: Insight...) By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 11 October 2001 21:51

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