Maxima on Windows XP Home and Vista Home: was: wxMaXIMA-maxima connection failure

Hi,

This is a follow up on my previous post : wxMaxima-Maxima connection failure, to which David Billinghurst replied indicating how to run Maxima from console instead of from wxMaxima.

I run Maxima from a DOS console and it didn't work. In the DOS console of my Windows XP Home and Windows Vista Home systems I run maxima.bat and instead of starting Maxima, the DOS console just jumped to next line and nothing happened. I did the same on my Windows XP Pro edition and everything was fine. Thus my problem that wxMaxima does not connect to Maxima in a Windows XP Home system and a Windows Vista Home system seems not to be a connection failure between wxMaxima and Maxima, rather it is that Maxima itself does not work for Windows XP and Vista Home editions.

I can easily be disproved and would like to know if anybody has a working installation of Maxima on a Windows XP Home Edition or Windows Vista Home Edition.

Thanks in advance

Ruben


Dr. Rub?n Roa-Ureta
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