Re: [Maxima-discuss] wxMaxima: Maxima Started. Waiting for Connection

[Wolfgang D. <wol...@da...>]

Am 30.06.20 um 22:45 schrieb David Randall:
> Hello
> 
> I am unable to successfully start wxMaxima. The UI starts fine, but
> there is an error message at the bottom right corner: Maxima started.
> Waiting for connection...
> [...]
> I have allowed wxMaxima to pass through windows firewall.
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Hi David,

wxMaxima is the 'server', Maxima the client, which connects to wxMaxima.
So one have to allow Maxima (the name of the process will be the Lisp
interpreter/compiler, for example "sbcl.exe" or "clisp.exe") the
communication.

> To do some troubleshooting:  when i start to maxima from 
> C:\maxima-5.44.0\bin\maxima.bat i get the following in a maxima
> window. (i am not used to running maxima this way, but the error
> message appears.
> 
> *** - DIRECTORY: Directory #P"H:\\" does not exist

A guess what may be the reason for that error message:
Maybe your user profile is on drive H:\ (maybe a network drive?) and
that is not available?

> (%i1) 1+1
> 
> [No output is generated.  ]

You have to end your command with a semicolon (or a dollar sign, but
then the answer will not be printed), otherwise Maxima will do nothing.

Best regards, Wolfgang