Re: Export problem with Mathematica 4.1/Mac OS 9
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- Subject: [mg46094] Re: Export problem with Mathematica 4.1/Mac OS 9
- From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 04:15:17 -0500 (EST)
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Igor, the Wolfram techie suggested I might have some funny characters in my
$TopDirectory. He was right. When I removed the apostrophe from the name of
my hard drive, everything worked fine.
js
On 24/1/04 9:08 am, in article butclo$9ls$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Joshua A.
Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk> wrote:
> First, I verified that there were no problems with my Hard Disk. Then I
> deleted the Mathematica 4.1 folder, Mathematica's Preferences folder and all
> of their contents. I then re-installed Mathematica 4.1 and executed the
> following commands:
>
> {$Version, $ReleaseNumber}
> {4.1 for Power Macintosh (November 2, 2000), 0}
>
> Export["out.dat", {{5.7, 4.3}, {-1.2, 7.8}}]
> out.dat
>
> tmp=Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}];
>
> Export["plot.pbm", tmp]
>
> ..at which point Mathematica beeped and the MathLink icon started flashing on
> the
> right of the menu bar. I selected 'Cancel' and received the following
> output:
>
> LinkOpen::linke: MathLink error: unknown error"
> plot.pbm
>
> Suggestions appreciated.
>
> js
>