Re: IDL and UNIX setenv

[nmw(at)ion.le.ac.uk (Nigel Wade)]

In article , "Daniel Peduzzi" <peduzzi@mediaone.net> writes:
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> Nigel Wade wrote in message <9gkfmi$jgv4$2@rook.le.ac.uk>...
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> >In article , "Daniel Peduzzi" <peduzzi@mediaone.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> I tried to append the "/usr1/guest/bin/" directory to my UNIX
> >> path before starting an IDL session, but the path information 
> >> doesn't seem to be propagated into IDL. 
> >
> >I'm pretty sure it uses PATH to determine the location of the 
> >program.
> >
> >Try checking your PATH carefully to make sure that you haven't added 
> >it incorrectly. If you can run "myprog" from the command line you 
> >should be able to run it from within IDL.
> >
> 
> That's what I thought, too.  Before I started IDL, I verified that
> I could run "myprog" from any directory as a result of extending
> the path correctly.  But subsequently, I'm not able to SPAWN the 
> program from within IDL without indicating its exact location.
> 
> >What do you get if you run :
> >
> > IDL> spawn,'echo $PATH'
> >
> 
> 
> I get the UNIX pathname BEFORE I extended the path.  Not only that,
> but if I try to extend the PATH environment variable from within
> IDL, I still can't run "myprog".  Boy, am I confused!
> 
> Dan
> 
> 


What shell are you using?

I notice that in the subject you mention setenv which implies you
are using csh/tcsh. AFIAK spawn will use sh so there may be some
difference between the path you set in csh/tcsh and the path used
by sh.

Are you actually setting and exporting PATH?

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