Did you quote the pathname? C:\program files etc. has a space in the
middle of the pathname.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:12 PM, ahmet alper parker <aaparker at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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