http://www.astrobetter.com/links-clear-distractions-and-books-google-buzz-two-tales-from-the-trenches-and-more/ Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.astrobetter.com/links-clear-distractions-and-books-google-buzz-two-tales-from-the-trenches-and-more/#comment-1828 Ian J. Crossfield Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:55:48 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1717#comment-1828 I stick the following lines at the end of my IDL_START file to keep a timestamped journal file of every IDL session. The files are saved in the current working directory, but you could prepend a path to save them all to a 'logs' folder somewhere. <code> ; Always create a journal file with today's date/time fs = '(I2.2)' caldat, julday(), mon, d, y, h, min datstr = string(y, format='(I4.2)') + $ string(mon, format=fs) + $ string(d, format=fs) + '_' + $ string(h, format=fs) + $ string(min, format=fs) + '.jrn' journal,datstr </code> I stick the following lines at the end of my IDL_START file to keep a timestamped journal file of every IDL session. The files are saved in the current working directory, but you could prepend a path to save them all to a ‘logs’ folder somewhere.

; Always create a journal file with today's date/time
fs = '(I2.2)'
caldat, julday(), mon, d, y, h, min
datstr = string(y, format='(I4.2)') + $
string(mon, format=fs) + $
string(d, format=fs) + '_' + $
string(h, format=fs) + $
string(min, format=fs) + '.jrn'
journal,datstr


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