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Re: Re-virginating Manipulates?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg114529] Re: Re-virginating Manipulates?
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:44:04 -0500 (EST)

In Mathematica 8, the same search yields result: "Did you mean: 
cleanslate.m" along with "Your search - CleanSlate - in Documentation 
Center did not match any documents."  Clicking the link "cleanslate.m" 
spuriously leads to PieChart !

On 12/5/2010 9:55 PM, AES wrote:
> In article<idd7p4$nd7$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>   Bill Rowe<readnews at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 12/3/10 at 5:19 AM, siegman at stanford.edu (AES) wrote:
>>
>>> It's always surprised me, frankly, that Mathematica doesn't have a
>>> built-in "Clean Slate" facility for its kernel that would be
>>> equivalent to executing a "Quit Kernel, then Restart Kernel" command
>>> (although there was a third party (?) command or utility with this
>>> name in some earlier version, was there not?).  Must be somehow hard
>>> to do this?
>>
>> The CleanSlate package is a standard package that has been
>> shipping some time with Mathematica and is still present in
>> version 8.
>
> Then why am I looking at a screen which says
>
>        Your search - CleanSlate - in Documentation Center
>        did not match any documents
>
> [Admittedly this is in 7, since I haven't loaded 8 yet; but can
> something as important -- and complex -- as a true, up to date,
> CleanSlate commend actually be in version 8 (in any meaningful
> definition of "in"), and not have any documentation anywhere in the
> Documentation Center.]
>

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