Windows/ Symantec Firewall / Maxima back end times out



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