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Re: Expanding $Path

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  • Subject: [mg47277] Re: Expanding $Path
  • From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 03:30:23 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: CERN
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Harold,

You can use these packages from their original location anytime just by
evaluating, e.g.,

    Needs["Utilities`CleanSlate`"]

This is the standard mechanism I believe.  However it it is really necessary
to modify your $Path for some other reason, I believe that the (or at least
one) "right" way to add an entry to $Path for a given user is to go to

    $UserBaseDirectory

This may already contain a sub-directory called Kernel. If not create it and
put the

    AppendTo[$Path, .... ]

in a file init.m in that sub-directory. This is a place where you can also
put other expressions that the kernel should always evaluate on startup
(e.g., you might always want to load some package with Needs[ ]).

To modify the path for all users of the computer, use $BaseDirectory instead
of $UserBaseDirectory.

Sometimes (e.g. for testing a development version of a package) it is useful
to use PrependTo instead of AppendTo.

Incidentally, I don't seem to have URLTools in my installation.

John Jowett



"Harold Noffke" <Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil> wrote in message
news:c4ghb6$3s6$1 at smc.vnet.net...

> $Version "5.0 for Microsoft Windows [2000] (November 18, 2003)"
> MathGroup:
>
> There are three default files in
> ...\5.0\AddOns\ExtraPackages\Utilities which I would like to add to my
> default search $Path ...
>
>   CleanSlate.m
>   Notation.m
>   URLTools.m
>
> The easiest place to put this new $Path entry would be at the end of
> the current $Path, using ...
>
>   $Path = AppendTo[$Path, $NewDir]
>
> However, I'm uncertain about how to permanently save the expanded
> $Path, so Mathematica uses it again.  How should this be done?
>
> Thanks.
> Harold
>



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