maxima doesn't start



Am 24.05.2007, 22:59 Uhr, schrieb Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru>:

> Andrej Vodopivec writes:
>> On 5/24/07, Dr. Robert Arnold <arno4401 at uni-trier.de> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I installed maxima 5.12.0 on my windows xp (I don't have a firewall).  
>>> But
>>> the back-end doesn't start.
>>>
>>> When I call maxima.bat from the command-line, it terminates imideatly
>>> without any output.
>>  This implies that it is not a socket problem. It could be you have DEP
>> enabled. My antivirus program enables DEP when it is installed so
>> firewalls are not the only programs which cause problems for maxima. A
>> workaround is here (you need to adapt the instructions to your
>> version)
>>  http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Run-time%20problems
> You are right. I'm almost 100% sure that this is DEP problem.
> I should put it in Windows README file.
yes, thank you very much! - that was it. I added the excemption aus  
explained in the link and it works fine now.

Best regards,
   Robert.