James Amundson ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> 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
>
I'm also puzzled to extremes but I can only confirm
these results with some little correction.
Simple .bat file
set MAXIMA_USERDIR=<XXX>
xmaxima.exe
dramatically improves start-up time
from 20-30 to 1 second. The correction
ist that <XXX> may be _any_ _nonempty_
string - ABC, FOO - anything does the trick!
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