[Maxima] Install on Windows

[James Amundson]

Could you (or someone else) try this test again and see what happens of
you delete the file "maxima" from the installed bin directory?

Thanks,
Jim

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 14:21, C Y wrote:
> --- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> > I'm also puzzled to extremes but I can only confirm
> > these results with some little correction.
> > Simple .bat file
> > 
> > set MAXIMA_USERDIR=<XXX>
> > xmaxima.exe
> > 
> > dramatically improves start-up time
> > from 20-30 to 1 second.  The correction
> > ist that <XXX> may be _any_ _nonempty_
> > string -  ABC, FOO - anything does the trick!
> >
> >       Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> 
> Confirmed, Windows 98.  The following all changed startup time to
> nearly nil:
> 
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=AAA
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR="C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.0.rc4"
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR="C:\Windows"
> 
> Even more amazing however, the following also resulted in short startup
> times:
> 
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=""
> 
> I got long startup times only when I used:
> 
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=
> 
> I was able to switch back and forth between long and short startup
> times by using the above commands.
> 
> So it seems that, regardless of the number of files in subdirectories,
> or even whether it has a character, what matters is that the variable
> be set to something.  Even "" worked.  Weird.
> 
> CY
> 
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