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For any information about TORTOISE generation V3.x.x, please refer to the new website.

1.2 Installation

In this section, the installation procedure for DIFF_PREP will be described.

This software requires either a full IDL license or can be run using the pre-compiled IDL virtual machine (VM) supplied with the TORTOISE download.