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Re: problem accessing notebooks

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg87985] Re: problem accessing notebooks
• From: Albert Retey <awnl at arcor.net>
• Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:50:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Peter Pein wrote:
> Jens-Peer Kuska schrieb:
> ...
>> what you do with SetDirectory[] is irrelevant for the package search.
> ...
> 
> This is not true for version 5.2.

It is true for every version of mathematica that I know of. But with the 
default settings ".", representing the current directory, is contained 
within $Path. So if that entry isn't deleted, SetDirectory will help, as 
you have observed. If you delete "." from $Path, SetDirectory will not 
help at all. Try your tests after doing this to see yourself:

$Path = DeleteCases[$Path, "."]


hth,

albert