Re: [Axiom-mail] Two file handling questions

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Actually I've just discovered that it works fine in wh-sandbox (compiled from source), but not in the downloadable linux binary.

-Alasdair

On 11 Jun 2007 17:04:56 +0200, Martin Rubey <address@hidden> wrote:

"Alasdair McAndrew" <address@hidden> writes:

> 1)  I can never get the )cd command to work.  If I type )cd on its own, I am
> told that
>
> "The current AXIOM default directory is /home/amca/".
>
>  If I then type )cd ProgramFiles/Axiom, I get told that
>
> ">> System error:
>    #p"/home/amca/" is not of type SEQUENCE."
>
> What's going on here?  (I can set my directory in my .axiom.input file, but
> sometimes I'd like to change my directory from within Axiom).

A workaround might be to specify the full path.  Another is to get a recent
wh-sandbox.  Which flavour of axiom do you use?

Martin