A special IDL startup has been created for the workshop. To invoke IDL, type: sidl. If you have particular IDL routines to run at the workshop, you can include them as follows. Log into the umbra ISTP account and create a directory using your last name (e.g. mkdir,kaiser). Copy your .pro files into the directory, together with any README files. Once in IDL, load them into the path by typing:
IDL> load_istp,/name
where name is your last name (e.g. /kaiser). When copying software, try to make the file names unique to avoid potential name conflicts. Avoid using hard-wired path names. For example, use $ISTP_DATA to reference the ISTP data directory instead of a path name like /service/trace-arch00/trace05/istp/data. Also use $ISTP for the ISTP login directory.
IDL> scope IDL> xdoc IDL> x2ps,ps_filename IDL> x2gif,gif_filename IDL> xprint,filename
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