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File_Which What!? [message #32920]

Wed, 20 November 2002 20:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

Does anyone know how to get the File_Which command to work?
The documentation is, uh, typical.

I have a file somewhere on my IDL path. It's name is "fire.clt".
I'm in a directory NOT on my path (my home directory), but I
would like to know where this file is.

The documentation says that the first positional parameter
is the "path", and the second is the "file" you are searching
for. Then it says, if the "path" is missing, then the IDL
path is used instead. But, wait, if the first positional
parameter is "missing", isn't the "file" the first positional
parameter!? Here is a new trick!

In any case, File_Which is coming back to me with a
empty string. Not what I had in mind? :-(

Anyone figure this out?

Thanks,

David
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		File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 November 2002 20:28
		Re: File_Which What!? By: rigby on Fri, 22 November 2002 11:16
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:54
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 November 2002 07:33
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Jaco van Gorkom on Fri, 22 November 2002 06:41
		Re: File_Which What!? By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 20:00
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 21 November 2002 19:21
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:46
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 21 November 2002 09:39
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 21 November 2002 06:04
		Re: File_Which What!? By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 21 November 2002 03:56
		Re: File_Which What!? By: R.Bauer on Thu, 21 November 2002 00:27
		Re: File_Which What!? By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 November 2002 14:40

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