--- James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
> 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
Jim, it does appear in init-cl.lisp, and a couple .in files too I
believe. grep for USERDIR and userdir in src.
CY
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