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.
>
I've just built Win Maxima installer with your latest patches
for maxima.bat and xmaxima. Everything works just fine
for C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.0.9beta1 installation path
on Windows XP. I'll try Windows Me a bit later.
David - many thanks for your work!
I venture to propose a few things as a final touch
for Windows installer:
1). Remove "Do not install to the folder with spaces..."
massage and make C:\Program Files\Maxima... ({pf} in InnoSetup
to be more precise) default installation path.
2). Add shortcut to maxima.bat to the Maxima menu.
--
Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy@netorn.ru>