>From: CALCRTS
>Sent: Friday, 19 September 2003 11:41 AM
>
>>From: CALCRTS
>>
>>> From: Javed Alam
>>> Sent: Saturday, 13 September 2003 12:02 AM
>>>
>>> I have been trying to run texmacs-1.0.1.21 with maxima-5.9.0 under
>>> cygwin on a win/xp and win/2000 system.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I get the following error.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Fatal error: bad url in 'complete'
>>> See file : url.cpp
>>
>>See if https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&group_id=156&bug_id=4241
>>helps. It suggests hard coding a file location. I will have a look
>>myself over weekend.
>
>Alternatively:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09820.html
>indicates that the problem is related to locate/updatedb.
>
>When "locate toc_maxima.html" finds the file then texmacs will run maxima.
>However, I have some unresolved issues on cygwin:
> - the machine that used to work now doesn't,
> - the one that didn't now does after doing an updatedb
> - updatedb is giving me some grief.
Sorry to reply to myself twice in the one day, but I have fixed the issue
above and texmacs/maxima is working on several windows 2000 and windows XP
machines under cygwin.
When I ran updatedb I got an error
"/usr/bin/find: . changed during execution of /usr/bin/find"
The work around (from Google) is to use the command
"updatedb --prunepaths="/cygdrive"
to avoid access removable and network drives mounted as /cygdrive/a ...