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Re: Packages Search Path: how to set it?

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• Subject: [mg13493] Re: Packages Search Path: how to set it?
• From: paulh (P.J. Hinton)
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 04:33:13 -0400
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
• References: <6peavu$i50@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <6peavu$i50 at smc.vnet.net>, "Ionel Simionescu"
<ionel at psy.uva.nl> writes:

|> Is there a clean, standard way to set up the packages search path
such |> as  Get["context`"] 
|> will (also) look in custom directories? |> 
|> I would like to avoid tweaking directly the  sysinit.m |> if
possible.

The safest place is probably the kernel's init.m file.  It's not clear
from your posting what version of Mathematica you are using.  Under
version 2.2, adding packages to your system required some hand editing
of init.m, but version 3.0 introduced several possibilities for 
installing shared and private copies of packages so that you didn't 
have to alter $Path.

If you could provide more specific version information, we might be able
to suggest some courses of action for you.

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