Footnotes

(1)

IDL is a registered trademark of Research Systems, Inc., a Kodak Company

(2)

Note that this package has nothing to do with the Interface Definition Language, part of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

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This list is created by scanning the IDL manuals and might contain (very few) errors. Please report any errors to the maintainer, so that they can be fixed.

(4)

Please inform the maintainer if you come up with a way to make the IDLWAVE shell work on these systems.

(5)

This is different from normal Emacs/Comint behavior, but more like an xterm. If you prefer the default comint functionality, check the variable idlwave-shell-arrows-do-history.

(6)

Due to copyright reasons, the ASCII version of the IDL manual cannot be distributed under the GPL.

(7)

The initial `+' leads to recursive expansion of the path, just like in IDL

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Unix systems only, I think.

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Call your RSI representative and complain -- it should be trivial for them to provide one. And if enough people ask for it, maybe they will. The upcoming IDL for Mac OSX is slated to have a command-line version.