Getting code to execute at startup time
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg9126] Getting code to execute at startup time
- From: chenrich at monmouth.com (Christopher J. Henrich)
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:33:37 -0400
- Organization: Monmouth Internet
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have been frustrated trying to make Mathematica 3.0 execute code at startup time. (Specifically: to add some items to the variable $Path.) I am running on a Quadra, with System 7.5.3. I found information on startup files in the reference manual, and gathered that any or all of these locations would work: FileName[ $PreferencesDirectory, Kernel, init.m] FileName[ $TopDirectory, Configuration, Kernel, init.m] FileName[ $PreferencesDirectory, AddOns, Autoload, Kernel, init.m] FileName[ $TopDirectory, AddOns, Autoload, Kernel, init.m]. (The last two were found by inspecting the AutoloadPath option of $FrontEnd.) In fact, as far as I could see, none of those files were executed. I have looked through the archives of "mathgroup." I found that, in December 1996, Bob Stagat <stagat at mrcsb.com> posed essentially the same question (mg5419). I looked again and did not find that he had ever been answered. In all of the init files that I wrote, I made sure that the cells I was interested in were "initialization cells." The cell brackets have a mysterious slanted line (Northwest to Southeast), whose meaning I have not found documented. There's got to be a way. What is it? -- Christopher J. Henrich chenrich at monmouth.com