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Help with help files. [message #6901]

Wed, 04 September 1996 00:00

Dyer Lytle
Messages: 11
Registered: April 1996

Junior Member

Hi all,

I was wondering how people handle on-line documentation in IDL.
We have developed about 8 different applications in IDL that we
distribute to our user base of about 40 people at various locations
and each of these applications has associated with it one or more
online "help" files. Currently, we ask our users to define their
"IDL_PATH" so that IDL can find the various tasks to execute and
we have them define a directory called "IDL_DOC" that we reference
whenever we call "xdisplayfile" from an application, i.e.

CASE event OF

'help': BEGIN
xdisplayfile,'$IDL_DOC/example.hlp'
END

Does anyone know a way to somehow use "IDL_PATH" to find this
documentation rather then useing a seperate environmental variable?
Or perhaps someone has a better approach to IDL on-line documentation?

Thanks in advance,

-Dyer

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Dyer Lytle
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HST NICMOS Project
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
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		Help with help files. By: Dyer Lytle on Wed, 04 September 1996 00:00
		Re: Help with help files. By: A. Maudsley on Thu, 05 September 1996 00:00
		Re: Help with help files. By: David Foster on Thu, 05 September 1996 00:00
		Re: Help with help files. By: thompson on Wed, 04 September 1996 00:00

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