Re: Display commands in a package
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg88721] Re: Display commands in a package
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Jerry wrote: > 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 Just to clarify: I thought you were asking about listing symbols in a package, and _not_ loading a package. I made a mistake here. Instead of >> >> << "BarCharts`*" I meant ? "BarCharts`*" which lists all symbols in the BarCharts context. >> >> 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. >