[Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1710774 ] Windows + space in install directory

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Bugs item #1710774, was opened at 2007-05-01 21:36
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Category: Installation
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Troy Henderson (tlhiv)
Assigned to: Vadim V. Zhytnikov (vvzhy)
Summary: Windows + space in install directory

Initial Comment:
The default installation directory for Maxima in Windows is

C:\Program Files\Maxima...

which contains a space " " in the filename.  Maxima will not run from the command line or from wxMaxima.  Installing in, say,

C:\maxima

seems to work just fine.

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>Comment By: Harald Geyer (hgeyer)
Date: 2007-07-12 23:07

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Further information about this problem can be found in the IRC logs of a
discussion between tlhiv (the submitter) and myself in #maxima:

http://rerun.lefant.net/~harald/maximalogs/2007-05-01.txt
http://rerun.lefant.net/~harald/maximalogs/2007-06-18.txt

I guess this bug report can be closed unless vvzhy has some additional
ideas how to track this down.

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Comment By: Robert Dodier (robert_dodier)
Date: 2007-07-03 02:43

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This doesn't look like a bug to me. Maybe someone can convince me it is a
bug.

I have run Maxima from a Windows command prompt many times. It is
necessary to enclose the path in quote marks e.g "c:\program
files\maxima\..." but this is nothing peculiar to Maxima.

To the original poster: maybe something else is preventing Maxima from
running. Feel free to post additional details here.


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Comment By: Vadim V. Zhytnikov (vvzhy)
Date: 2007-05-06 21:03

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Strange, nobody reported problems with spaces in installation path 
for very long time.  On the other hand I do know situation in which
the problem could arise but newer observed it in practice before.
Please post your Windows version and contents of maxima.bat file
in the case when maxima instelled in C:\Program Files\Maxima.

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