Hi David,
You may try the procedure described in the imaxima homepage
http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/imaxima/Site/Easy_Install_on_Windows_XP.html
I haven't tested this procedure in Vista, so you may still
have issues here or there, but I think this is worth while trying...
Yasuaki Honda, Chiba, Japan
On 2008/04/25, at 18:44, David Scott wrote:
>
> I amd trying to get imaxima working with Emacs on a Vista machine.
>
> My first problem is getting maxima.bat recognised
>
> I have c:\Program Files\Maxima-5.14.99rc1\bin in my path, but if I
> issue
> the command maxima in the command prompt window then I get the message
> that maxima is not a recognized unless I am actually in the bin
> directory.
> Then maxima.bat is found and runs maxima.
>
> What is then totally weird (to me at least) is that if I then cd to
> another directory, maxima.bat is found, so I can run maxima just by
> issuing maxima at the command prompt.
>
> Does anyone on the list have an explanation and a workaround for this?
>
> I am reasonably experienced on Windows and Vista, but totally
> inexperienced with maxima.
>
> David Scott
>
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