printfile in wxMaxima



On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Ronald Modesitt <rmodesi at msn.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Thanks in advance for the help. I am running wxMaxima 0.7.4 on Windows XP. I
> am unable to execute the function 'printfile' and in fact do not find the
> function listed  in the Maxima Manual pages (chm version) although there is
> a reference under the 'print' function.  Printfile is called several times
> in the Woollett tutorial so I suspect I have a configuration problem.

I can't test on windows right now, but in cvs version, printfile is
described in the documentation:

(%i1) ?! printfile;
 -- Function: printfile (<path>)
     Prints the file named by <path> to the console.  <path> may be a
     string or a symbol; if it is a symbol, it is converted to a string.
     If <path> names a file which is accessible from the current
     working directory, that file is printed to the console.  Otherwise,
     `printfile' attempts to locate the file by appending <path> to
     each of the elements of `file_search_usage' via `filename_merge'.
     `printfile' returns <path> if it names an existing file, or
     otherwise the result of a successful filename merge.

and is working correctly with wxMaxima on Mac OS X.

-- 
Andrej