Finally - more information (sorry): She gets a segv on linux redhat 9
using IDL 6. It works fine for her with IDL 5.4. This is at Leiden - it
seems everyone "knows" it doesn't work at Leiden but no-one bothered to
tell Starlink or Tracy (who just arrived there). Joy.
Not sure exactly which command she is using but I assume she is attempting
to read an NDF.
Tim
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Chipperfield, AJ (Alan) wrote:
> Wouldn't it be good if people reported problems to us?
>
> I believe it worked OK at IDL V5.6 but the licence on our installation no
> longer works so I'll have to get that sorted out to re-check, and possibly
> get updated to IDL V6.0.
>
> It would be helpful to know what platforms, versions and commands were
> thought not to work - and why someone thought it was unfixable without
> reference to us. I would hope that simply changing a header file might do
> the trick.
>
> Having said that, the conversion to FITS route is not unreasonable for the
> simple read and write NDF case but there are a couple of commands, hds2idl
> and idl2hds, which may be in use to handle more general structures.
>
> Regards
> Alan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Tim Jenness
> > Sent: 15 December 2003 19:22
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: idl + convert (fwd)
> >
> >
> > No replies, should I just report that this is no longer
> > supported and that she should convert the file to FITS before
> > reading it into IDL?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have a comment on this? [I think she is talking
> > about the
> > > IDL routines in CONVERT]
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Jenness
> > > JAC software
> > > http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:15:43 +0100 (MET)
> > > From: Tracy Webb <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Subject: idl + convert
> > >
> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > Can you tell me if there is an unfixable problem with the
> > convert idl
> > > routines and the newer versions of idl? (I've been told
> > there is but
> > > not by anyone who really knows the software).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tracy
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------
> > > Dr. Tracy M.A. Webb
> > > Phone: +31 (0)71 527-5884
> > > Fax: +31 (0)71 527-5743
> > > email: [log in to unmask]
> > > Sterrewacht Leiden/Leiden Observatory
> > > Niels Bohrweg 2
> > > 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
> > > --------------------------------------
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Tim Jenness
> > JAC software
> > http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
> >
>
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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