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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Søren Højsgaard wrote:

> 2) How does texmacs get the idea of looking into the directory 
> d:\YacasFolder\binaries (which is not on the computers search path)
>
>  
To my knowledge, the only way texmacs could do it is
because "d:\YacasFolder\binaries" belongs to the path.

This is because of how init-yacas.scm is originally
written :
<<
(plugin-configure yacas
 (:require (url-exists-in-path? "yacas"))
 (:launch "yacas --texmacs")
 (:session "Yacas"))
>>

In the code above, fetching the binary is clearly
done by means of a simple command (i.e. : "yacas --texmacs"),
and it is clearly specified that it should be done only
if the "yacas" command can be found in the default path
(i.e. : (url-exists-in-path? "yacas")).

Thus it seems clear that "d:\YacasFolder\binaries"
belongs to your default path, otherwise, the simple
command "yacas --texmacs" would not start.

(but there are sometimes higher mysteries in how computers
behave, therefore I would not 100% guarantee you that my interpretation
is the only possible one, especially under Windows ;-)...


> Can anyone help me to sort this out?
>  
I would say that adding the
path "c:/local/yacas/winrel/yacas"
to your default Windows path should
solve the problem.