problem with plotdf



Am 30 May 2006 um 9:39 hat Jaime E. Villate geschrieben:

Hi Jaime,
thanks for your answer. 

> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:24 +0200, van Nek wrote:
> 
> > the german error message tells that Windows expected omplotdata to be
> > a binary/command and could not find it. 
> That means that the TCL/TK script used by openmath is not installed in
> your system.

Maybe there should be a remark in the documentation, that openmath doesn't work in the 
console. Tcl/Tk is not installed by default.

> If that is the case, any other command that tries to use the openmath
> interface will fail. For instance:
>  plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,6],[plot_format,openmath])
> 
> > Any ideas?
> You can use xmaxima or wxmaxima. They both include openmath. 

OK, that works. But only with a semicolon at the end. Dollar hangs my Maxima in that case, 
what I do not understand. 

You can
> also find the omplotdata.exe from a 5.9.2 Maxima version and copy it
> to the location that was shown in the error message. 
> 
> Since I have not used 5.9.3 in Windows yet, I was not aware of that
> problem. I will look at it tonight, in my son's computer where there
> is Windows.

I would like to know if you observe this semicolon/dollar problem too. 

But please don't spend too much time on it.

Cheers 
Volker