Re: IDLv5.4

[Paul van Delst <pvandelst(at)ncep.noaa.gov>]

Jeffrey Newmark wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has had problems reading save sets
> made with IDL V5.4 on older versions? Is this a feature? I
> can read old save sets on the new version. If indeed the savesets
> are not backwards compatible, that is very annoying!

Backwards compatibility? Now there's a concept. Isn't what you're trying to do like attempting to
compile Fortran90 code with a FORTRAN IV compiler? Lucky you're not SAVEing compiled code in IDL -
that's not even upwardly compatible!

paulv

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