On 29-07-2013 11:13, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Dieter Sulzbacher <dieter at cave.at> writes:
>
> <Transcript>
>
> (%i43) wxdraw2d(explicit(Beitrag(f),f,10000,1e6),yrange=[10,10000],logx=true,logy=true);
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> Error in SETF [or a callee]: Cannot create the file C:/Users/Sauron/maxout.gnuplot
> Automatically continuing.
> To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
>
> </Transcript>
>
>
> ...
> Someone with a better knowledge of plot2d's internals can probably say
> whether there's a way to tell it to use a different temporary directory,
> which will make things work for you.
>
>
You mean "draw2d's internals" not plot2d's internals.
I do not know draw2d's internals but from the error message I guess the
variable maxima_userdir is being used, which can be set to a different
value:
(%i1) maxima_userdir: "C:/Some_directory_name";
Regards,
Jaime