RE: Maxima 5.9.0.9beta1



Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) writes:

>>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.
> 

Thank you!  I'll give it a whirl this weekend.

-- 
      Vadim V. Zhytnikov

      <vvzhy@netorn.ru>