Re: IDL 5.4 Stability - wot about the licensing?

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

Martin Schultz <martin.schultz@dkrz.de> wrote:
>Todd Clements wrote:
>> landsman@my-deja.com wrote:
>> >Last month, Paul van Delst wrote:
>> > > One annoying thing I have noticed is that on my linux box I can now
>> >only have one session
>> > > of IDL running. Previously every other platform/OS on which I have
>> >used IDL (that had a
>> 
>> RSI is rather aware of this problem. They are planning a fix for the next
>> update. In the mean time, if you can prove to them that it's a nuisance
>> for you, you might be able to get a temporary license to work around it.
>> They did state that a way around it is that you can start as many copies
>> of the IDLDE from the SAME xterminal as you want... of course, hating the
>> IDLDE as I do, this wasn't really an option for me.
>> 
>> Todd
>
>... has anyone tried what happens with the idlwave emacs shell? Would
>it work
>(a) if you started more than one shell from the same emacs session (is
>this possible by the way?) 
>(b) more than one emacs session from the same terminal?

Part (b) does NOT work... I have not tried part A, but in theory it should
work, if it's even possible to do.

Todd