Changing Working Directory - Bug in Maxima 5.30.0



On 2013-08-29, Wilhelm Haager <wilhelm.haager at htlstp.ac.at> wrote:

> Host type: "i686-pc-mingw32"

OK, I guess this is a Windows system ...

>  Error in MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL [or a callee]: Cannot open the file 
> /Programme/Maxima-5.30.0/info/./maxima.info-1.

Well, to ask the obvious question: does said file exist? or perhaps
maxima.info-1 is somewhere other than the stated location?

> PS: Is there a possibility to attach a posting in the mailing list
>     to another message directly?

Not sure what you mean, but for the record, you can read the Maxima
mailing list at gmane.org [1] and use their web interface to post and
followup. I use the slrn text-only newsreader but it is very old school
(gives me that warm fuzzy 1993 feeling).

best

Robert Dodier

[1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general