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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:52:35 -0400
From: Javed Alam <jalam at cc>
Subject: problem running maxima in texmacs on an win/xp in cygwin shell
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Dear Mr. amundson:


I am a newbie in using texmacs and maxima(5.9.0). I installed the 
xmaxima for win/xp and its run fine, however, it does not produces good 
output, Therefore I looked around for a nice GUI and found TEXMACS. I 
went through the process of installing cygwin and compiling the texmacs 
for win/xp. This way I was able to run TEXMACS on a win/xp machine. 
However, I had no luck in getting maxima to run within texmacs.

I could not find any documentation that explains on how to install 
maxima properly within cygwin on winx/xp so that maxima could run within 
texmacs environment. After searching through the maxima mailing list I 
found that you wrote a patch so that maxima 5.9.0 can run within texmacs.

I checked the file tm_maxima in the directory

c:\cygwin\usr\local\libexec\TeXmacs\bin

that is exactly same as the one you posted on the maxima mailing list.

I also found the rest of the files in the following directory:

c:\cygwin\usr\local\share\TeXmacs\plugins\maxima\lisp

I had xmaxima installed on win/xp as a windows program. This did not 
help so I copied the maxima directory within c:\cygwin directory and the 
directory where maxima resides is as follows:

c:\cygwin\tmp\maxima\bin

This allows me to run xmaxima within a cygwin unix shell installed on 
the win/xp. However, texmacs still can not load maxima within its 
environment.

Sorry for this long e-mail, however, could you please help me in 
pointing to my mistake in this setup that is causing the problem. Any 
help in this matter will be highly appreciated. I am mostly a windows 
user and I am not sure about the correct path variable setup for unix 
systems.

Thanks in advance.




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