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

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