This bug has already been fixed in wxmaxima. I believe maxima 5.18.1
will be released soon so I will not update the current windows binary.
Sorry for the trouble.
Andrej
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM, van Nek <volkervannek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I can reproduce this observation:
>
> I found Windows registry entries
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\wxMaxima\RecentDocuments\document_0
> and
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-842925246-1614895754-839522115-
> 1000\Software\wxMaxima\RecentDocuments\document_0
>
> It's value is ?E:\Temp\wxm518.wxm and if I change it to e.g. E:\Temp\wx082.wxm then I
> only can load E:\Temp\wx082.wxm.
>
>
> Volker
>
> Am 14 Apr 2009 um 20:31 hat maxima at math.utexas.edu geschrieben:
>
>> Hello Robert,
>>
>> I fear it is a quite serious problem and I hope this problem can be solved quite soon. Due to
>> the fact that wxMaxima is quite popular in at least Austria and Germany we then need
>> another Maxima version.
>>
>> I have been playing with this now for two hours. The solution seems to be rather crazy. The
>> path of the file must be "E:\Temp\wxm518.wxm". Seriously! Then in 95% of all cases
>> wxMaxima 0.8.2 can load old files (after renaming it to wxm518.wxm and placing it into the
>> path E:\Temp). No matter with which version it is created. But no other file name is possible
>> even if it is created by 0.8.2 itself. (Perhaps there are other paths/file names possible, but I
>> didn't find them.)
>> A very few old wxm-files don't work even if they have the "right" path and file name. I don't
>> see a reason for this but the error message "Failed to convert file E:\Temp\wxm518.wxm to
>> Unicode" pops up. Maybe this is a hint.
>>
>> While writing I just remember that E:\Temp\wxm518.wxm was the first file I created with
>> wxMaxima 0.8.2. I will deinstall and install again and check if the situation changes. I'll let
>> you know.
>>
>> This is the situation on my Windows computer. I wonder whether this observation can be
>> reproduced. Unfortunately I have no Linux computer available at the moment to check if this
>> only a Windows problem. But it seems not.
>>
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> Am 14 Apr 2009 um 8:56 hat Robert Dodier geschrieben:
>>
>> > On 4/12/09, van Nek <volkervannek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > The problem seems to be caused by the file itself, not by the contents:
>> > > I created a wxm-file with wxMaxima 0.8.2 (Maxima 5.18.0 on Windows) and
>> > > a wxm-file with wxMaxima 0.8.1 (Maxima 5.17.1) and copied the contents of
>> > > the 0.8.2-file to the 0.8.1-file with the result that wxMaxima 0.8.2 still crashes
>> > > when loading the 0.8.1-file (while the socket remains open and an instance
>> > > of maxima is running).
>> >
>> > I don't understand what's going on here. Is the problem in wxMaxima
>> > or in Maxima? I'm trying to determine whether to try to squeeze a bug
>> > fix into the 5.18 release branch. Can you post the 2 files in question?
>> >
>> > Maybe wxMaxima 0.8.2 cannot load any files? (including the ones
>> > created by 0.8.2)
>> >
>> > I seem to recall Andrej V saying something about recent changes in
>> > Maxima created trouble for wxMaxima. Is the observed behavior a
>> > symptom of that?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any information,
>> >
>> > Robert Dodier
>>
>>
>
>
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