Subject: Fwd: xmaxima in 5.15 under Windows (Vista)
From: Fabrizio Caruso
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 19:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
The file (intro.html) is indeed there.
I must also say that xmaxima in Maxima 5.14 does not have this problem.
How come 5.15 broke it?
Fabrizio
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Robert Dodier wrote:
>> "couldn't open
>> "C:/PRO.../share/maxima/515../xmaxima/INTRO...HTM": no such file
>> or directory
>
> I believe the problem is that the Windows path with the abbreviations
> in it is being misunderstood (whether by Tcl or by the Windows
> filesystem itself, I don't know). Please try to verify if the intro.html
> file is present in your installation; my guess is that it is.
> If it is present, I don't know what to do, short of trying to rename
> the items in the path which have abbreviations (and even if you
> did that, I am not sure if it would resolve the problem).
>
> Sorry I can't be more helpful,
>
> Robert Dodier
>
> PS. I have Maxima 5.14.99rc1 installed on laptop w/ Vista,
> so it does work sometimes. But I remember being bitten by
> this pathname bug with some previous version.
>