Re: Problems with the help index

[Terje Fredvik <tfredvik(at)astro.uio.no>]

Michael Lefsky wrote:
> 
> Does anyone else have the following problem?
> 
> I look something up in the Index mode of Help in IDL (Solaris 2.7, both
> 5.2 and 5.3), select an item, and then IDL pulls up the wrong page. I
> have always figured that it was my installation (surely RSI wouldn't
> ignore such a major bug in the documentation) but then a recent post
> (the radon transform post) jogged my memory.

I had the same problem, but it was solved when I rebuilt the library:
after starting help, click the "index" button and then click the "find" 
tab on the new screen that pops up. Click "rebuild" and finally click
"continue".

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Terje Fredvik                       
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