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- From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
- Subject: Re: Mathematica Installation Difficulties
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.011609.28772@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
- References: <1992Jul28.231333.6484@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 01:16:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.231333.6484@leland.Stanford.EDU> shiva@vega.Stanford.EDU
- (Marcos Javier Polanco) writes:
- >
- >
- > I finished installing Mathematica on my Nextstation last night, after
- > getting
- > the password from Wolfram Research.
- >
- > I expected to get a prompt like IN[1] = like the Mathematica book shows.
- > Instead, when I click on Notebook, I get a blank page (Untitled-1) without
- > any prompt.
- >
- > I tried clicking on different options but nothing gave me a prompt.
-
- No prompt appears---you just start typing. Note the following peculiarities of
- Mma, however:
- 1. You must hit Shift-Return or Enter to complete the command (not Return).
- 2. Mma doesn't start the kernel until the first command is entered, so the
- first command will take a while to finish even if it is 1+1 (this can be
- changed with Preferences menu).
- 3. Errors in the shell scripts "math" and "mathremote" or the password file
- (typically "/LocalApps/Mathematica.app/Kernel/NeXT/mathpass") can cause Mma,
- without any user notification, to just never respond to your commands. The
- file paths and host and registration information must be exactly correct.
-
- Examples of the last one: if your "mathpass" file has your host as
- "glub.flub.edu", but the UNIX hostname command replies with "glub", Mma will go
- into sulk mode. Or---true story---if someone misspells "Kernel" as "Kernal" in
- the paths given in the scripts, then you will have a devil of a time figuring
- out why Mma won't run.
-
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- Paul Burchard <burchard@math.utah.edu>
- ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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