On Oct 27, 2008, at 17:32 , Jason Grout wrote:
>
> Justin C. Walker wrote:
>> Thanks, William,
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:26 PM, William Stein wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I am helping someone who has a Windows system, and wants to use
>>>> Sage.
>>>>
>>>> She has the VMWare gizmo set up and working fine. I have a silly
>>>> problem, due to my long history of Windows Rejection: I have a file
>>>> on Windows that I want to "attach" in the Sage notebook. Can
>>>> that be
>>>> done? The obvious doesn't work ("/home/user/D:/Documents/..." not
>>>> found).
>>
>>> It's possible but you have to set up some sort of sharing
>>> between Windows and VMware. I.e., the Windows filesystem
>>> (or some subset of it) has to be made available to vmware.
>>> This is I think very easy in VMware Workstation via menus. I don't
>>> know
>>> if it is easy or not in VMware player. I don't actually have access
>>> to a windows machine right now, so i can't give step-by-step
>>> directions. I hope somebody else can promptly respond to
>>> this email who can.
>>
>> I'll poke at VMWare when I see her next. If anyone has some good
>> ideas, I'd love to hear `em.
>
>
> Can't you upload the file as a "data file" and then attach it from
> there? That way everything is done from the notebook.
I wasn't sure that would work. It was not clear to me where the
upload/download commands were operating. I will give that a shot.
To make sure I know what's going on here, the file to be attached is
currently sitting in the Windows file system, and needs to be in the
VMWare/Linux file system, correct?
Justin
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