philf@astro.lsa.umich.edu (Phil Fischer) wrote: >After issuing a call_external command, it seems to me that the called program >(*.so file) remains in memory until idl is exited. Is there any way of freeing >it from memory? Unfortunately I think this is just the way it is, which is obviously a pain for debugging the externally-called program. Having said this my experience is of dll's under NT. Justin