hi,
this is on Debian stable (sid, 3.1) with Maxima installed via apt-get
(or similar) from a mirror of the official repository:
(%i1) file_search_maxima;
(%o1) [/home/miquel/.maxima/###.{mac,mc},
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/share/###.{mac,mc}, /usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/share/{aff#
ine,algebra,calculus,combinatorics,contrib,contrib/nset,contrib/pdiff,diffequa#
tions,graphics,integequations,integration,macro,matrix,misc,numeric,physics,si#
mplification,specfunctions,sym,tensor,trigonometry,utils,vector}/###.{mac,mc}]
(%i2) file_search ("maxima-init.mac");
(%o2) FALSE
$ locate maxima-init.lisp
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/share/maxima-init.lisp
Miquel
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:40 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Bob,
>
> > > Thanks Volker but when I put the maxima-init.mac
> > > in /usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/share (Debian sid) it does not pick it up.
> > > There is not maxima-init.lisp file there either.
>
> file_search_maxima names the directories searched
> for .mac files. What is the value of file_search_maxima ?
> What does file_search ("maxima-init.mac"); report?
> What does "locate maxima-init.lisp" (at shell prompt) report?
>
> By what means was Maxima installed?
> I am a little worried that the file/directory stuff is messed up.
>
> Volker,
>
> > In 'DOE-Maxima Reference Manual.pdf' I found the following.
>
> Unfortunately that document (of which the html version is at
> http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/maxima/html/macref/)
> is out-of-date. I'll probably write to the author and ask him
> (nicely of course) to redirect links to the Maxima project site.
>
> Up-to-date reference and tutorial documents are listed at
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs.shtml .
>
> Hope this helps,
> Robert Dodier
>
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