Mike Thomas writes:
> Hi David/James.
>
> I just spent half an hour this evening with Dave's installer on Windows
> 2000 Pro and earlier about 10 minutes under XP Pro. I ran the tests,
> plotted and calculated various examples, using the XMaxima plot window
> and GNU Plot 4.
>
> I found no problems other than those raised by Vadim and I agree with
> him that adding the Windows GNU Plot executables would be a boon to Maxima.
>
> It may help you to know that the Windows GCL installer sets the default
> install path to C:\Progra~1\whatever and GCL seems not to have problems
> with spaces on launch; details may be found in the Inno setup script in
> the GCL windows subdirectory. Whether this will make xmaxima launch the
> maxima executable properly, who knows.
>
C:\Progra~1 should work. The real problem(s) is
1). How to determine short for of "C:\Program Files\bla_bla_bla"
on particular Windows installation? 99 cases of 100 it will be
C:\Progra~1\... but
- it may be C:\Progra~2\....
- the ~ symbol can be changed some other char
In general - do you know find out short form (if exist)
or an arbitrary long drive:\bla bla\bla bal bla\... path?
2). If we know 1) how do we feed this path into
Maxima configuration files. Into maxima.bat in
particular.
I just have a brief look at InnoSetup documentation
and it looks like nether 1) nor 2) is possible without
external helper (post installation) programs.
Am I wrong?
> I still don't understand what the output from "File/Save expressions to
> file" is meant to do, but that is quibbling in my book.
>
> This is the least troublesome Maxima beta I've tried.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas
>
>
>
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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