Re: Re: Notebooks location
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- Subject: [mg89580] Re: [mg89550] Re: Notebooks location
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:12:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Yes, I know that those environment variables give values to the corresponding Mathematica variables. But that doesn't solve the problem of setting different values of $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory for two different versions of Mathematica installed at the same time - without somehow changing the corresponding Windows environment variables (manually or with a batch file to start Mathematica). What I was asking about/suggesting was a new feature that would allow setting these in the Options Inspector. (That was what the original posting was about.) Albert Retey wrote: > Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> Which reminds me: What about including some mechanism so that the >> following could vary from one Mathematica version to another when more >> than one is installed? >> >> $AddOnsDirectory >> $UserAddOnsDirectory >> $BaseDirectory >> $UserBaseDirectory >> > > It can be done for $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory: > > The value of $BaseDirectory can be specified by setting the > MATHEMATICA_BASE operating system environment variable when the > Mathematica kernel is launched. It cannot be reset from inside the kernel. > > The value of $UserBaseDirectory can be specified by setting the > MATHEMATICA_USERBASE operating system environment variable when the > Mathematica kernel is launched. It cannot be reset from inside the kernel. > > $AddOnsDirectory and $UserAddOnsDirectory are undocumented in version 6 > and will be set to $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory, respectivly, > at least on my Windows XP with Mathematica 6.0.2. > > hth, > > albert > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Notebooks location
- From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
- Re: Notebooks location
- From: Albert Retey <awnl@arcor.net>
- Re: Notebooks location