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IDL Virtual Machine Woes [message #63744]

Mon, 17 November 2008 12:15

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

I hate to bother you again with this unending saga,
but I've been working three weeks now to create a CD
that will run my IDL application on a Windows, UNIX,
and Macintosh machine and I am still without joy.

Yes, I *can* follow directions, but unlike the set-up
in the IDL documentation, my binaries are not all on
the same network. In fact, I have three separate
machines, at three corners of a triangle with
sides that can be measured in miles (45 miles for
one leg of the triangle). That seems to be complicating
things for me.

I have been able to produce a CD that can run on
Windows and UNIX machines, and another than can
run on Windows and Macintosh machines, but so far
not a single CD (and God knows when I bought 100
I thought I had enough!) that can run on all three.

Can someone provide *explicit* directions on how to
do this?

I *presume* the problem comes when I try to transfer
the files to/from the Mac and Linux machines. (No
problem with Windows, as always. :-)

I wish to burn these CDs on a Linux machine, so I have
been trying to get the entire CD distribution on the
Linux machine. When I transfer the Mac bits and pieces
to Linux (with a memory stick), the resulting CD does
not run on Macs (a window opens and closes too fast for
me to figure out what the error is).

If I tar up the Mac distribution and transfer that to the
Linux box, I get complaints from my Linux machine to the
effect that when it encountered the apple script stuff,
it expected a file and ran into a folder, do I want to
SKIP this. My choices are abort the transfer or skip,
so I skip.

So, .... any ideas?

I'm about to go with the idea of just putting my save file on
the CD and directions that say, in effect, go get your own
damn IDL Virtual Machine! And good luck doing it!

But I still have the tiniest bit of hope I can somehow
get this to work.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 November 2008 12:15
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 November 2008 09:36
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: greg.addr on Thu, 20 November 2008 03:08
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 19 November 2008 09:29
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 November 2008 09:26
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 November 2008 08:45
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 November 2008 06:49
		Re: IDL Virtual Machine Woes By: greg.addr on Fri, 21 November 2008 00:06

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