Re: IDLv5.4

[Jeffrey Newmark <newmark(at)eitv2.nascom.nasa.gov>]

Hi Ben and others,

I am having this problem with data, any array at all! I am
aware of problems previously with restoring complex structures, code
etc., but for many versions now I have not had the problem of
restoring a simple data array with an older version of IDL.

Ben Tupper wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm probably reminding you of something you already know, but only
> data in SAVEd files are IDL version independent.  Code is not version
> independent.  This behavior is noted in the online documentation for
> SAVE.
> 
> Are your saved sets of code or data?  If it's data that you can't
> RESTORE, then we all better be listening.  (How many funky
> colortables have I saved as *.pal?)
> 
> Ben
> 
> Jeffrey Newmark wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has had problems reading save sets
> > made with IDL V5.4 on older versions? Is this a feature? I
> > can read old save sets on the new version. If indeed the savesets
> > are not backwards compatible, that is very annoying!
> >
> > IDL> print,!version
> > { alpha OSF unix 5.4 Sep 25 2000      64      64}
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jeff Newmark
> > SOHO NASA/GSFC
> 
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Dr. Jeffrey Newmark
SOHO - EIT Team Scientist