Re: Export problem with Mathematica 4.1/Mac OS 9
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- Subject: [mg45830] Re: [mg45761] Export problem with Mathematica 4.1/Mac OS 9
- From: "Joshua A. Solomon" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:50:25 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
No dice. After some trial and error, I discovered PNM.EXE is the appropriate
binary for conversion to pbm. If I select it after the beep (see below),
then everything works fine until I quit the kernel. I tried explicitly
including its directory in $Path, but the (re-launched) kernel still fails
to find it.
js
On 26/1/04 12:16 am, "Yasvir Tesiram" <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> You probably don't have a binary for conversion to pbm. Try some other
> format.
>
> Yas
>
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Joshua A. Solomon wrote:
>
>> First, I verified that there were no problems with my Hard Disk. Then I
>> deleted the Mathematica 4.1 folder, Mathematica's Preferences folder and all
>> of their contents. I then re-installed Mathematica 4.1 and executed the
>> following commands:
>>
>> {$Version, $ReleaseNumber}
>> {4.1 for Power Macintosh (November 2, 2000), 0}
>>
>> Export["out.dat", {{5.7, 4.3}, {-1.2, 7.8}}]
>> out.dat
>>
>> tmp=Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}];
>>
>> Export["plot.pbm", tmp]
>>
>> ..at which point Mathematica beeped and the MathLink icon started flashing on
>> the
>> right of the menu bar. I selected 'Cancel' and received the following
>> output:
>>
>> LinkOpen::linke: MathLink error: unknown error"
>> plot.pbm
>>
>> Suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> js
>>
>