Re: something like perl's 'require 5.4'

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

"Hugh D. R. Evans" wrote:
> 
> Along similar lines, we have both IDL and PVWave here. Is there a simple,
> guaranteed method of detecting whether WAVE is started or IDL? Use of
> "!Prompt" could work, but it is configurable, similarly the parsing of the
> !PATH, and of course, !version provides little or no help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hugh

I don't know but you may use !version. I believe there are 
differences between idl and pvwave.

cheers

Reimar



> 
> "Vapuser" <vapuser@catspaw.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
> 88bspwwkvg.fsf@catspaw.jpl.nasa.gov">news:88bspwwkvg.fsf@catspaw.jpl.nasa.gov...
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> >   I'm looking for something that check the version of the current IDL
> >   session against an input version, like perl's 'require 5.4'
> >   semantics and I *thought* I saw someone mention using something very
> >   much like this.
> >
> >   Does anyone know of such a thing or was I just hallucinating?
> >
> > whd
> > --
> > William Daffer: 818-354-0161: William.Daffer@jpl.nasa.gov

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