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["Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden>]

Shatadal Ghosh wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for the windows build. I have tried to use your suggestions on how to
> enable texmacs to detect other software like pari. I use maxima and I
> changed your pluginpaths.txt file to point to the maxima directory which
> contains the executable. However on starting texmacs, I saw that texmacs
> does not find the executable and does not add it to the sessions menu. I
> then tried another pluginpaths.txt file where I just added the filename of
> the executable too. Even then texmacs does not recognise it. I am copying
> the pluginpaths.txt file both to the "C:\Documents and
> Settings\[username]\.TeXmacs\plugins " and the "C:\Program
> Files\WinTeXmacs\TeXmacs\plugins" directories.
>
> Thanks,
>  

The first trouble with Maxima and WinTeXmacs is that Maxima executable is
maxima.bat - not maxima.exe.  I found that TeXmacs function
(url-exists-in-path? "<program name>")
which checks whether program is available in the path or not is unable
to find .bat files. 

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