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Re: Something Has Changed [message #61447]

Wed, 16 July 2008 14:04

Ryan.
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Hi David,

In my version 6.4 of IDL it compiles the "junk.pro" file and runs it.
It must be a new to IDL 7.

Ryan.

David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I usually teach in my IDL Programming courses that if you
> are at the IDL command line and you type "junk" that
> IDL goes looking through the IDL PATH for a file "junk.sav",
> then failing to find that, "junk.pro".
>
> In the former case, IDL would restore the already compiled
> routine, whereas in the latter case, it would have to
> compile the file.
>
> This seems no longer to be the case. If I have a "save" file
> and a "pro" file in my local directory, the "pro" file is always
> compiled. The "save" file is ignored.
>
> Does anyone know when this behavior changed? It is this way
> in IDL 6.4 and IDL 7.0.3 for sure.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

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