On 10/19/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > If the maxima system does not run it is most likely you have a firewall
> > preventing the front end from opening a socket to attach to the maxima
> > executable.
>
> Another thing that can happen on Windows systems is that
> Windows detects programs which try to execute code in data
> areas of memory and prevents that (so-called Data Execution
> Prevention, I think). I don't know how to turn it off or at least
> allow maxima.exe to run; maybe there is something in the
> control panel.
Since maxima also does not work from the command line the problem is
probably with DEP. How to turn it off is described in the wiki:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Run-time%20problems
--
Andrej