Justin C. Walker wrote:
>
> 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.
I believe that it will be uploaded/downloaded to the $DATA directory, so
it could be attached with:
attach $DATA/filename.sage
I haven't tried, it, though.
Jason
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