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

[David R. <ran...@an...>]

Thank you very much, Wolfgang!

My mistake on forgetting the semicolon in the maxima code.

You were right that the problem had to do with H:\ being a network drive 
(on work network).
H:\  was not a valid drive when i tried running and it didn't connect 
(computer booted at home).

I got the wxMaxima-Maxima connection alive by
1) going on the work network and restoring the drives (including H:\).
2) H:\ is now a valid drive
3) Maxima works...

My question morphs to...  (and it may be a windows command line / batch 
file question)

Is there any way to have the command default location that is used to 
start maxima assume that it is starting from a driver other than H:\ (my 
default drive)?

My path (from typing 'path' at a command prompt) does not include H:\
When on work network (H:\ is a valid drive):  Windows-R + "cmd" goes to 
H:\  (the problem seems to be that H:\ is some sort of default 
drive/location ?, due to how work computer gets setup).
When not on work network (H:\ is not a valid drive):   Windows-R + "cmd" 
goes to C:\...\system32 directory

Maybe something needs to be edited / modified in the maxima.bat batch file?

Thank you again!
-david


On 7/1/2020 1:42 PM, Wolfgang Dautermann wrote:
> 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.
> can
> 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

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