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Re: Using Mathematica 5.2 and 7.01 with separate

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• Subject: [mg103460] Re: [mg103456] Using Mathematica 5.2 and 7.01 with separate
• From: "A. B." <functionalcoatings at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:24:05 -0400 (EDT)

Despite what everybody says, including people from Wolfram, it is not
possible to have two versions of Mathematica installed at the same time
without taking special precautions beforehand. I tried (on Mac) but it is
too cumbersome and I have given up.



> Hello,
> I have both installed Mathematica v.5.2 and 7.01 and I would like to
> use each of them with separate setting. At this moment when I change
> any option in Options Inspector of Mathematica 7 it also affects
> Mathematica 5.2 and leads to error messages when I launch v.5.2. Why
> this happens? And how to force each version to use its own separate
> settings?
> 

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