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GDL installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Nov 28 20:27:52 2006
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:27:46 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed GDL on Athena for Linux machines (wouldn't compile on
Suns). GDL is an interactive interpreter/incremental compiler for the
GNU Data Language, which is primarily used in scientific and geodata
processing applications. It supports graphical output and is
intentionally designed to be highly compatible with the commercial IDL
language.
To access it:
add gdl
gdl
to run programs:
GDL> .run myfile
to compile and run a GDL program in file myfile.pro.
See http://web.mit.edu/gdl_v0.9p3/README.athena for more detailed
information and pointers to documentation (which is rather sparse,
unfortunately). Many IDL tutorials and manuals apply also to GDL since
there is a high degree of language compatibility.
Alex
