Updated 2018 June: for idl 6.3 on canopus and deneb , goddard libe is now at
/usr/local/exelis/
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.)
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