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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Executive Probs with Maple
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 16:16:06
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- W.G.J. Langeveld (wglp09@scsa1.slac.stanford.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1186.6582T778T209@aix1.danadata.dk> hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing) writes:
- : >
- : > On 09-Jan-96 00:31:55, W.G.J. Langeveld wrote:
- : >
- : > >> I am actually using the symbolic arithmetical package MapleV.
- : > >> Unfortunately the Plot3D module doesn┤t open a screen and does not return
- : > >> back to Maple, if Executive is running. Result: Maple hangs. ( Execute is
- : > >> definitely responsible). Setting all Maple task schedule settings to IGNORE
- : > >> did not work. Any ideas ?
- : >
- : > > You may want to talk to the author of Executive, and have them fix the
- : > > incompatibility.
- : >
- : > You are jumping to conclusions, now :-)
- :
- : Well, I'm not. Executive is a "system hack", which I presume does not have the
- : "blessing" of either Commodore or Amiga-Tech. Without Executive, Maple runs fine,
- : with Executive it does not. Hence it is not compatible, almost by definition...
- : Having said that, if there's a way we can make Executive happy in an upcoming
- : patch of (that is, if there will be one) Maple without compromising running
- : without Executive, then we will likely do so.
-
- It's Maple's problem. It (like several other programs, such as Brilliance and
- ShapeShifter) depend on certain subtasks being at certain relative priorities.
- They are likely to break if the priorities are altered, and since priorities
- are _designed_ to be alterable, depending on priorities like this is bad
- programming practice.
-
- -- Mat.
-