C:\Program is not recognized as a batch file it says. It is a directory
problem. I installed it to directly C:\Maxima**\ and now it is working...
Thank you very much...
Alper
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> I don't know where the system search box is in Windows 8, but in earlier
> versions, the Start button will let you search for 'maxima'.
>
> On my system, under Windows Vista, I run
>
> /Program Files (x86)/Maxima-5.28.0-2/bin/maxima.bat
>
> I assume it's something similar in Windows 8.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:55 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Which directory it is located, I want to try it under command line
>> instead of calling from menu....
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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