11.2 FASTDOC


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11.2 FASTDOC

This procedure will print out the IDL documentation header for the input routine(s). The location of the IDL routines are determined using a table lookup algorithm so that subsequent calls are very fast. For routines located within the Yohkoh tree, FASTDOC is an efficient substitute for DOC_LIBRARY, which must search for routines on every call. The /summ switch may be used to print only the procedure or function definition line. The /multi switch will print all online versions of the input routines. When called without parameters, an interactive version is invoked. Currently only works on Unix machines.
IDL> fastdoc, 'fastdoc'
 
IDL> fastdoc, 'fastdoc', /multi, /summ

IDL> fastdoc, '*anytim*'

IDL> fastdoc



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