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GETHELP function -- where can I find it? [message #4077]

Tue, 25 April 1995 00:00

Russ Welti
Messages: 27
Registered: October 1994

Junior Member

Last week I posted asking about a way to get HELP info on a
variable returned as a string array:

> Does anyone know if I can get the normal HELP info on
> just a simple variable back similarly, as in:

> help,var=var or maybe help,/stru,struct=some_struct

I found my own answer, in the GETHELP function, in 3.6.1.

HOWEVER, it won't run. Does anyone have a working GETHELP
function?

The documentation says I can do this, but:

IDL> a=gethelp()

a=gethelp()
^
% Syntax error.
IDL> print,filepath('gethelp')
% Compiled module: FILEPATH.
/opt/idl/gethelp
IDL> $ls /opt/idl/gethelp*
/opt/idl/gethelp*: No such file or directory

The 4.0 beta help system says the file is in "the lib subdirectory
of the IDL distribution". I can find no source file for GETHELP
*anywhere* on my machine.

Does anyone have a copy of it I can get?

Thanks much,

Russ Welti
UW -- Seattle, WA
rwelti@u.washington.edu

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		GETHELP function -- where can I find it? By: Russ Welti on Tue, 25 April 1995 00:00
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