On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Samuel Gaehwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could you try making a new clean user account and running > > sage -maxima > > from it? > > Thank you!! On a new user account sage and its maxima worked > beautifully. > > On my main account I found a folder called "Steuerfälle" generated by > a governement-software for calculating the taxes in Switzerland... I > changed that -> issue gone.
Excellent! We're tracking this issue here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2841 I hope we can figure out how to fix Maxima so that it doesn't break like that even with funny files. > > Thank you very much, William. I'm looking forward to having a great > time with sage. > As soon as I'm enough familiar with it I plan to write an article > about opensource math software in the "polykum" paper, which is > distributed to all researchers and students of my university, the ETH > Switzerland. Sadly, on the institutes I know (math, physics, computer > science and electronic engineering) most - if not all - math software > used is proprietary math software. I really hope you'll write such an article. Definitely ask questions on sage-support if you have them. Writing such things, etc., is what we really need in order to grow the Sage user base. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---