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Re: Display commands in a package

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg88716] Re: Display commands in a package
• From: Jerry <Jer75811 at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:12:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Szabolcs Horv=C3=A1t wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
>> David Park wrote:
>>> You can do the following:
>>>
>>> << BarCharts`
>>>
>>> ?BarCharts`*
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for the info but I can't get this to work on my
>> V6.02 XP machine.
>>
>> With a fresh kernel this works ok - no error messages.
>> << BarCharts`
>>
>> But in response to this line
>> ?BarCharts`*
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> Syntax::sntxf: "?" cannot be followed by "BarCharts`*".
>>
>> Syntax::tsntxi: "BarCharts`*" is incomplete; more input is
>> needed.
>>
>> Syntax::sntxi: Incomplete expression; more input is needed.
>>
>> Do you have any thoughts on why my machine won't respond
>> correctly to this? Thanks.
>>
>
> Sincerely, I have no idea.  Try
>
> << "BarCharts`*"
>
> or
>
> Information["BarCharts`*"]
>
> instead.
>
Thank you for the suggestion but << "BarCharts`*" didn't
work either. But I stumbled into a line that does work:

Needs["BarCharts`"]

This is just one of the peculiar things about my
installation; no idea why commands others use don't work
here. Thanks again.