Re: loading packages-followup
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg14448] Re: loading packages-followup
- From: "Dale Horton" <daleh>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 03:32:44 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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1) This is by design. Mathematica will comment out all cells which are not initialization cells (Cell|Cell Properties| Initialization Cell from the menus). 2) If I understand correctly, you try putting a directory in ProgrammingInMathematica and a package in tat directory. You will need to load this with <<ProgrammingInMathematica`Directory`Package` -Dale sean_ross_at_pl-04m3 at smtpgw1.plk.af.mil wrote in message <703vqk$i23 at smc.vnet.net>... > > This is in response to my earlier question about why packages I >wrote > wouldn't load. The answer is that code written in the 3.0.1 >FrontEnd > and Saved As Special:Package Format is commented out in the save > routine, thus all packages written in the front end and saved in >what > appears to be the intended manner have an extra (* at the front of >the > file and an extra *) at the end, effectively disabling the code. >If > you remove these in a text editor, the package can be read in and > everything loads just fine. I now have two more questions related >to > this. > > 1) is this placing of extra (* and *) in packages by the > SaveAsSpecial:Package Format a "feature" or a "bug"? > > 2) The kernel knows to search the \ProgrammingInMathematica and the > > \Utilities subdirectories of the ExtraPackages folder. If I put my > > own subdirectory in the ExtraPackages folder, the Kernel does not > search there. Why? I got around it by appending the path to the > $Path variable in the init.m, but I am still curious as to how the > Kernel knew it was supposed to search only those two subdirectories > > but wouldn't search mine even though none of them was listed > explicitly in the $Path. > > Please respond to rosss at plk.af.mil or seanross at worldnet.att.net as >I > no longer subscribe to the mathgroup. > > Thanks, > > Sean Ross > >