On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 07:51, paricaud@club-internet.fr wrote:
> On my Windows98 Machine I have also a 50s startup Time.
> But when I set the environment variable MAXIMA_USERDIR to an almost empty directory then startup time is only a few seconds.
> I guess that by default , the MAXIMA_USERDIR is something like "C:" and may be there is during startup a routine which searches each libraries on the whole disk, or something like that.
>
> So it is better to create a maxima.bat file containing:
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=C:\MAXIMA_USER
> "C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.0.rc4\bin\xmaxima.exe"
>
> Or add the following command to autoexec.BAT
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=C:\MAXIMA_USER
Thank you for this hint. I am now completely confused. MAXMIA_USERDIR is
not used by any tcl or lisp code. It is only referred to by the maxima
Bourne shell script, which is not used in Windows.
Hmmmmm...
Thanks,
Jim