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Re: An IDL STRTOK??? Was: TextoIDL Broken and Gone?
In article <onbst8eczg.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>,
Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:
>> Nick Bower (bowern@ses.curtin.edu.au) writes:
>>
>> > This really sucks and it's most unfortunate that such a well-known
>> > package like this has been inadvertently clobbered without a hint of
>> > documentation.
>>
[snip]
>
>Yes, STRTOK was one of the things I mentioned in my rant a few days
>ago. As I understand, STRTOK, was and is an undocumented built-in
>function. And obviously, is incompatible with the version in
>TextoIDL.
>
>I have done a little research. It does indeed seem that Mr. Craig's
>host of TextoIDL, coma.berkeley.edu has gone off-line. I cannot find
>him in the on-line UC Berkeley directory, and the Berekely whois
>server does not respond. His web page is still up
>(http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mcraig/). Apparently he's a real
>kayaker.
A while back I was in contact with Matthew Craig and we were allowed to host
textoidl at
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/software/idl/textoidl/index.html
I have not heard from him since, but the code on the web-page runs on 5.3
Joern
>
>I would be glad to host TextoIDL on my web page. It can be
>distributed without modifications no problem. However the terms of
>redistribution forbid changes, so we couldn't fix the STRTOK problem.
>
>Is there anybody here from the UC Berkeley Astronomy department who
>knows what happened to Mr. Craig? I have sent a note to his former
>email address. We will see what happens.
>
>Craig
>
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