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Re: Specifying path to a non standard package

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• Subject: [mg59354] Re: Specifying path to a non standard package
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 03:46:51 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <dd1ikr$1cc$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

a) what may the $Path variable do ? Defining the path where
   Mathematica searche for packages ?
b) on your remote computer you have a $PreferencesDirectory
   in the directory you have the rights to write and you just
   need to create in this directory an
   $PreferencesDirectory/AddOns/ExtraPackages/Utilities
   and place the package there.

Regards
  Jens

"Lee Newman" <leenewm at umich.edu> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:dd1ikr$1cc$1 at smc.vnet.net...
| Group,
|
| Situation
| -- I am using a package "SubscriptSymbols" in a 
notebook, with the
| statement: 
Needs["Utilities`SubscriptSymbols`"];
|
| -- This package is not standard with 
mathematica, and I have the package
| file (SubscriptSymbols.m) sitting in the 
directory
| D:\Apps\Wolfram 
Research\Mathematica\AddOns\ExtraPackages\Utilities
| where it seems to be found automatically by 
Mathemetica when the Needs
| statement is executed.
|
| -- I want to run the notebook on a remote 
computer, but I do not have
| the ability to put the SubscriptSymbols.m file 
in the appropriate
| mathematica directory.  I must have the 
SubscriptSymbols.m file in the
| same directory as the notebook that uses it.
|
| Question
| -- How can I load the package from a specified 
working directory that is
| not part of the context paths known by 
mathematica?   I've tried adding
| path info within the needs statement but that 
does not work.
|
|
| Thanks,
| Lee Newman
| 

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