recovering old .sav files



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/11/08, Alberto Marcone <alberto.marcone at dimi.uniud.it> wrote:
>
>  >  I used maxima with wxMaxima sometime in 2006 and saved quite a bit of
>  >  work in files with extension sav.
>  >  Now I changed my computer and upgraded to the current version of maxima,
>  >  and I cannot find a way of opening my old files.
>  >
>  >  I tried with load, but I get the error message:
>  >   > Load failed for C://Documents and Settings//alberto//My
>  >  Documents//maxima//Newton.sav -- an error. To debug this try
>  >  debugmode(true);
>
>  I am guessing that you saved the files with the "save" function.
>  If so, try this:
>  :lisp (load "C:/my-path/my-file.sav")
>  which should print a more informative error message.
>
>  Probably you will have to post one of the .sav files in question,
>  and the error message you get when you try :lisp (load ...).

Ops, I missed that Alberto already tried with load. Anyway save/load
functionality does not work in current cvs either:

Macintosh:~ drasko$ maxima
Maxima 5.14.0cvs http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CMU Common Lisp Stage 3 20071107T024924 (19D)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) x:a$

(%i2) save("session.sav", all)$

(%i3) load("session.sav");
;

; Warning: This variable is undefined:
;   ${

Load failed for session.sav
 -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
(%i4)


-- 
Andrej