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Re: can dos or windows application be called by IDL?



web (jiali3@21cn.com) writes:

> I sometimes need to call dos command or dos .exe(generated by fortran
> compiler). Can I do it in IDL? You know it is faster to compute by Fortran.
> For example, if I would like to run "abc.exe", how can I do in IDL?

The easiest way is to use the SPAWN command.

Cheers,

David

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