External Development Guide
IDL Internals: Files and Input/Output
This section discusses the following topics:
IDL and Input/Output Files
File Information
Opening Files
Closing Files
Preventing File Closing
Checking File Status
Allocating and Freeing File Units
Detecting End of File
Flushing Buffered Data
Reading a Single Character
Output of IDL Variables
Adding to the Journal File
IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)
