Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry
Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Biosciences
IDL Introduction
For first informations and trials there is a Web-based
idl
access under
Form based example
for
idl
access
(only GSF local)
Command based example
for
idl
access
(only GSF local)
Some web references can be found under
Rodenacker's IDL references
.
idl
FAQ (
local
(only occasionally updated)
|
original
). This FAQ is virtually important for beginners.
ILD/PVWAVE
news list.
To access
idl
directly on unix machines at GSF the following steps have to be fulfilled:
Import NFS file system
/idl
from
janus.gsf.de
to
/IDL
on your local machine.
Actually there is version idl 5.2.1 with several existing architectures.
Setup
idl
by:
source /IDL/IDL_setup
Start idl by:
idl
(terminal input) or
idlde
(X development environment).
Xemacs
users can load the files
idl.el
and
idl-shell.el
from
/IDL/pro_src/emacs/
to have an
emacs
development environment.
For beginners type
idlinfo
at the idl prompter or try the
WWW interface
.
Lots of example procedures/functions can be found under
/IDL/pro_src/...
.
For any questions ask
me
.
Last modified: 18.10.2004
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Last modified: 18.10.2004