Re: $Path variable
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15105] Re: $Path variable
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:59:06 -0500
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Doug,
it is impossible that a simple
AppendTo[$Path,"/export/home/kuska/Notebook3.0/AddOns"]
in Your init.m crash the system.
On MS-Windows there is a single init.m file on unix you must change it
in ~/.Mathematica/3.0/Kernel/init.m
If You have no
~/.Mathematica/3.0/Kernel
directory create one and add the init.m file.
To change the $Path only temporal, you may use
Block[{$Path="~/somedir"}
Get["somepackage`"]
]
Hope that helps
Jens
Doug Webb wrote:
>
> Hello,
> How do I change the list of directories searched in the $Path vaiable
> in Mathematica? None of my books give any indication of how to alter
> $Path, other than a "manual" $Path = "......". I want Mathematica to
> search a particular direcotry for packages I've written, in addition to
> all the current ones. I've looked at my init.m file, it doesn't have
> $Path in it. All my attempts to change it init.m have caused crashes.
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> Doug