how to re-define the HOME directory?



On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Oliver Kullmann wrote:

> since in my research platform Maxima needs to run locally, without
> intrusion of the user space, I needed to do something w.r.t. the
> .maxima directory, and fortunately redefining the environment
> variable HOME when calling Maxima does the job!

Now Leo has told us how to do this without breaking the calling of
Gnuplot, I think we also have a way to run multiple simultaneous
instances of Maxima containing plot2d commands (cf. thread starting at
<http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2008/011095.html>;).

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Cheers,

Dan