Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4

[mole6e23(at)hotmail.com (Todd Clements)]

In article <7yem17zkhd.fsf@dosbocas.lanl.gov>, Ed Santiago <esm@lanl.gov> wrote:

>  >Any suggestions on:
>  >
>  >1) Alternatives if one wants to create GIF files here after?
>
>Haven't tried this myself (don't have 5.4 yet), but unless RSI jumped
>through hoops to explicitly disable this, you could try:
>
>     ARCH=<your arch, e.g., linux, alpha, solaris2, etc>
>     cp $IDL_53/bin/bin.$ARCH/idl_gif.*   $IDL_54/bin/bin.$ARCH/

I tried this - it's a license manager issue, so they did jump through some
hoops, and it doesn't work. Same thing with the compressed .tiff files.

Todd