RE: Maxima 5.9.0.9beta1



>From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov 
>Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) writes:
>>From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
>>
>> 
>> I am not going to look at spaces in paths.  I have had enough
>> of PCs for a while - time to play with gfortran on irix and 
>> to crawl under the house and lay some network cable.
>> 
>
> InnoSetup Pascal Scripting language has built-in
> function GetShortName which converts which should do
> the trick (wrapper to Windows API function GetShortPathName).

Vadim,

Just for you I have done this, too  :-)
 - the short path gets patched into maxima.bat (if required)
 - maxima.bat works form command line
 - xmaxima doesn't work.

There is an error box from xmaxima:

  Error staring Maxima:
  Can't execute {{C:/Program Files/Maxima-5.9.0.9beta1/bin/maxima}} -s 4008 &
  couldn't execute "{C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.0.9beta1\bin\maxima}": no such file or directory

I will commit the patch to fix maxima.bat.  Patches for xmaxima accepted.