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