No, not.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> Maxima mailing list
>>>>>>>> Maxima at math.utexas.edu
>>>>>>>> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>