You won't find many procedures from older versions of IDL that have disappeared in newer versions. On the other hand, there are a few freeware libraries of IDL '.pro's that have a very wide distribution. 'sixlin.pro' is part of the most widely distributed of them all, the NASA 'astrolib'. Here is the direct download link for 'sixlin.pro':
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.../pro/math/sixlin.pro
but you might want to study the whole freeware 'astrolib' library for additional options, documentation and links.
James Jones