Hi Andrej,
with Maxima 5.15.0 on Windows 2000 printfile works, but prints an additional rectangle (not
printable character) at the end of each line in both wxMaxima and xMaxima. In console
Maxima these rectangles do not occur.
Volker
Am 24 Apr 2008 um 17:15 hat Andrej Vodopivec geschrieben:
> 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
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