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IDL Arecibo Phil routine “.h” file directory moved slightly to work on algol

Published by jweisber on 2006-05-14

NOTE: SEE BOTTOM OF THIS POST FOR UPDATE:

i moved the h subdirectory below rather than at the same level as the gen directory. now idl on algol finds it and starts up fine with phil’s routines:

Now on algol at:

/data/psrdata/usr4/OH/wapp03/philstuff/gen/h

rather than at

as on arcturus at

/data/psrdata/usr4/OH/wapp03/philstuff/h

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but note that in late May 2006 JMW realized it is more subtle than this:

in /data/psrdata/usr4/OH/wapp03/philstuff/gen/

in aodefdir.pro, i had to define the path to

/data/psrdata/usr4/OH/wapp03/philstuff/

at which point all path difficulties cleared up. so the above “fix” is obsolete (if it ever worked!) In future installations, it should not be necessary to move the h directory.

Old system logs, old backup lists, old hints

Published by jweisber on 2006-04-20

To access the old system log, which still has useful info, go to /docs/sysinfo/sulog. New entries should NOT be placed there but rather here on this blog that you are reading.

(For much of May and until June 7, it was on algols /data/arcturus/doks/sysinfo/sulog.–jmw)

(note that even earlier sulogs are in /docs/thuban-doks/sysinfo)

(other old gems like backup lists are under /docs/thuban-doks, like ourhints and dumps)

IDL Goddard Library updated 2018

Published by jweisber on 2006-04-20

Updated 2018 June: for  idl 6.3 on canopus and deneb , goddard libe is now at

/usr/local/exelis/idl83/lib/goddard/pro

It was never installed on mirzam idl 8.6 but when it is (soon) it will be in a similar place except replace “excelis” with “harris”.  –jmw

 

Drew and Joel brought in the IDL NASA GSFC Library, as the Heiles tutorial uses a routine from it to enable reading columns from a table. There are many other excellent IDL astro routines in it.

We gunzipped and untarred the download into

algols /usr/local/rsi/idl_6.3/lib/goddard as of May 2006,

(((((((on original post said we put it into:/space/share/astro/idl/idl_6.2/lib/goddard))))))
and after adding Sirius and Mirzam licenses we had to go to algols /usr/local/rsi/idl_6.3/lib/ as root and

scp -r goddard root@mirzam:/usr/local/rsi/idl_6.3/lib/

and

scp -r goddard root@sirius:/usr/local/rsi/idl_6.3/lib/

Note that inside ~.idlstartup, one has
!path = expand_path(‘+/gig1/usr4/OH/wapp03/philstuff/gen’)+’:’+ !path

which (because of the “+”) takes all subdirectories containing files ending in .pro or .sav from the above directories. I believe that the above is operating also on the unix path as well, though the parenthesis would suggest no. Maybe !path is an already expand_path-ed version of unix path.

anyway this works. we can access the Goddard library from inside IDL. But also note that its location suggests we may need/want to move it once we upgrade to next version of IDL.

NOTE ADDED JUNE 2008: DONT CONFUSE GODDARD LIBS WITH GBTIDL!

AS FAR AS I KNOW, WE USE STD GODDARD LIBS WITHOUT MODS.

(We DID have to mod GBTIDL – see above posts.)