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Online help with non-windowing devices [message #4452]

Sat, 24 June 1995 00:00

rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991

Senior Member

I would like to get IDL online help when I log on from home using a
text/Tektronix terminal emulator. In this case my plot device is 'tek' and it
can't do windowing.

Prior to IDL 4.0 I could get online help by typing '?', and I would get a
text-based interface to the online help. Not beautiful, but it did the job.
This no longer works, IDL tries to use the hypertext help and I get an X error
opening display.

There was a post about a month ago which described a way to get the old widget
based help by using WIDGET_OLH. The old text based help was done with the
routine MAN_PROC. MAN_PROC still exists in IDL_DIR/lib/, but when I run it
there appears to be no online help library available?

Is it still possible to get help when logged on through a non-windowing
device? If not, then IDL 4.0 is a major step backward in this regard.

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		Online help with non-windowing devices By: rivers on Sat, 24 June 1995 00:00
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		Re: Online help with non-windowing devices By: landsman on Fri, 30 June 1995 00:00
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