Windows/ Symantec Firewall / Maxima back end times out
Subject: Windows/ Symantec Firewall / Maxima back end times out
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:14:55 -0700
On 4/17/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> My office computer has Symantec Firewall / Antivirus etc
> installed; something changed recently that makes wxmaxima
> and xmaxima not work: the front end waits for the back end
> to start up, but (eventually) it times out.
Only thing I can think of is to look for the firewall and/or antivirus
control panel (dunno if they're the same or separate) and look for
Maxima and unblock it. Maxima might be shown under the name
Tcl/Tk (the name of the GUI toolkit).
Does command line Maxima work OK ?
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier