What happened when you tried to start command-line Maxima?
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:24 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>wrote:
> I first tried wxmaxima, it says not connected to maxima (I checked the
> firewall too).
> Also xmaxima gives error messages after starting and do not communicate
> with you. I cannot copy paste it here, it doesn't allow and it is too long
> to write unfortunately.
> I was also unable to start the command line maxima from start.
> Firewall tweaking didn't helped. The version is 5.28.0.2.
> Yes, I downloaded the installer from repo.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> Ahmet, thanks for your report. I do not know about Windows 8
>> compatibility, but it might be helpful if you told us *how exactly* it
>> is "not compatible with windows 8".
>>
>> - Does Windows or Maxima give an error message when you start it?
>> (If so, what error message?)
>> - Does Maxima give some sort of error after starting?
>> - Does it run but give incorrect results? (e.g. bad layout)
>> - Do some features (e.g. plotting) not work?
>> - What version of Maxima did you try to start? Command line?
>> wxMaxima? XMaxima?
>> - After you started Maxima and/or XMaxima/wxMaxima, what processes
>> are running?
>>
>> Also, how did you install Maxima? It sounds as though you downloaded the
>> binary?
>>
>> Did you do anything to tell the Windows firewall that the Maxima front
>> end (if you're using one) is authorized to talk to the Maxima back end?
>>
>> -s
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:21 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all, I am using maxima 5.28 (the latest version from the
>>> sourceforge repository) and it seems it is not compatible with windows 8.
>>> Also I see in the mailing list 5.30 release.
>>> 1. where can I download the latest 5.30 release for windows if it is not
>>> in sf repository?
>>> 2. will it work for windows 8, how can I make it run? Compatibility mode
>>> of windows did not helped.
>>> Best regards...
>>> AAP
>>>
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>>
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