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From: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:56:23 -0700
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>>>>> "Leo" == Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> From mailnull Tue Apr 9 16:45:26 2013
Ray> While trying out update_examples to update the fft examples (which are
Ray> incorrect), I noticed that the my maxima init files are loaded. This
Ray> causes the examples to include time information from showtime:true.
Ray> I couldn't find any way to force maxima not to load my init files.
Ray> Did I miss it? If not, I propose we add a --no-init-files option that
Ray> tells maxima not to load any user init files.
Leo> maxima --init=/dev/null
Really? I think it would be ok (on Unix) if it actually tried to read
from /dev/null, but, in fact, it tries /dev/null.mac and
/dev/null.lisp. These probably don't exist. I guess it works because
they don't exist, so anything that doesn't exist will also work.
Ray
Yes, I think you are right about *why* it works. If you really want to
have Maxima read from a null init file:
maxima --init-mac=/dev/null --init-lisp=/dev/null
will do the trick.
Leo