comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Routine to locate .PRO file?

Home » Public Forums » archive » Routine to locate .PRO file?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Routine to locate .PRO file? [message #2545]

Wed, 27 July 1994 03:48

HADFIELD[1]
Messages: 9
Registered: March 1994

Junior Member

When one types (say) ".run,aprocedure" at the IDL command prompt, IDL searches
the current directory, then the directories in the !PATH system variable, for
a file with the name aprocedure.pro (under DOS, aprocedu.pro) and compiles it.
My question, is there a function that will return the name (complete with
directory specification) of that file? Or will I have to write one?

I know that in the IDL Astronomy Library there is a procedure called GETPRO
that claims to locate the .pro file as above and copy it to the current
directory. So it looks like that could be modified to do what I want. But it
doesn't seem to handle the DOS 8-character limitation.

============================================================ ==
Mark Hadfield hadfield@greta.niwa.cri.nz
NIWA Marine (Taihoro Nukurangi) NIWA.GRETA:HADFIELD
Wellington, New Zealand

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

Routine to locate .PRO file?

By: HADFIELD[1] on Wed, 27 July 1994 03:48

Previous Topic:	IDL 3.6.1 A lot of bugs and annoyance
Next Topic:	Re: IDL 3.6.1 does not start on AIX

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 13:12:38 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.03710 seconds