Subject: Assistance with url parsing bug in xmaxima
From: Jaime E. Villate
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:42:51 +0100
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:14 +1200, Robert Willam Grieve wrote:
> He recommended that I look at the URL
> http://fisica.fe.up.pt/pub/maxima/doc/lecture15.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> couldn't
> open "/usr/share/maxima/5.9.3/xmaxima/ http:/fisica.fe.up.pt/pub/maxima/doc/lecture15.html":
> no such file or directory
Ouch! now I remember a couple of my students complaining about the same
error in Windows a few months ago. I did not pay enough attention at the
time. It definitely seems to be a bug (it works OK in Linux). I will
investigate what's going on. In the mean time, to be able to see the
file, you can open the above URL in a regular browser and save its
source code on your disk. Then try to open it in Xmaxima with a
URL similar to the one that appears initially; something such as:
file://my_dir/lecture15.html
> Jamie, I'm sorry for moving this to another thread. Sorry to be a
> trouble. But still, just though this should be verified.
No problem, you did the right thing starting a new thread. And you
are not giving us any trouble; on the contrary, your messages have
been very valuable in helping us find an important bug.
Regards,
Jaime