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Re: Device independent plotting [message #70790] Wed, 05 May 2010 08:02 Go to previous message
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On May 5, 11:47 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Karen writes:
>> To make my code truly platform independent I would like to check what
>> platform I am running on at the start so then I can load the right
>> paths to my files, rather than having to change them by hand every
>> time I swap machine. Is there a command that will tell me whether I am
>> on Mac or PC from within IDL? Sure there's an easy way but I can't
>> find it on the web.
>
> You are looking for !Version.OS_Family.

path_sep() may also be useful, to make sure the right kind of slash is
used. Nicely, file_dirname() and file_basename() work correctly on any
platform when given forward slashes, and return results with the right
kind of slash.

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