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Re: printf crashed IDL401 in Win3.1 [message #6149]

Tue, 16 April 1996 00:00

Andy Loughe
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Registered: November 1995

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Paul R Smith wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Having done a lot of C programming lately I accidently wrote a line
> like;
> printf,'Output ...'
> which instantly crashed IDL 401 under Windows 3.1 (application error etc
> etc). Has anyone noticed this before?
> Paul

Of course there is a printf function in IDL which allows
one to print to a file. It requires a unit number, so this
is the reasonable error I get on a workstation...

IDL> printf, 'hello there i was wondering.'
% Type conversion error: Unable to convert given STRING to Long.
% Detected at: $MAIN$

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