PRO tester ; Routine to illustrate problems with Expand_Path() and FindFile() in ; IDL 4.0.1b under WFW3.11. ; Written by David Steele (David.Steele@usask.ca), August 19, 1996. ; Demonstrate that FindFile() works fine. c0="ff=FindFile('c:\dos\*.exe')" Print,c0 o0=Execute(c0) Help,ff Print,'ff(0:3):',ff(0:3) ; Run it again for good measure. c1="ff=FindFile('c:\dos\*.exe')" Print,c1 o1=Execute(c1) Help,ff ; Now use Expand_Path to try to locate all (sub)directories where .PRO ; and .SAV files may be found under C:\RSI\IDL40\LIB. This should ; include HOOK and OBSOLETE. c2="xp=Expand_Path('+c:\rsi\idl40\lib')" Print,c2 o2=Execute(c2) Help,xp ; Now demonstrate that Expand_Path() is broken. c3="xp=Expand_Path('+c:\rsi\idl40\lib')" Print,c3 o3=Execute(c3) Help,xp ; Now see whether FindFile() still works. c4="ff=FindFile('c:\dos\*.exe')" Print,c4 o4=Execute(c4) Help,ff Return END