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Re: Re: Notebooks location

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• Subject: [mg89580] Re: [mg89550] Re: Notebooks location
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:12:21 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Yes, I know that those environment variables give values to the 
corresponding Mathematica variables.

But that doesn't solve the problem of setting different values of 
$BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory for two different versions of 
Mathematica installed at the same time - without somehow changing the 
corresponding Windows environment variables (manually or with a batch 
file to start Mathematica).

What I was asking about/suggesting was a new feature that would allow 
setting these in the Options Inspector.  (That was what the original 
posting was about.)

Albert Retey wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> Which reminds me:  What about including some mechanism so that the 
>> following could vary from one Mathematica version to another when more 
>> than one is installed?
>>
>>    $AddOnsDirectory
>>    $UserAddOnsDirectory
>>    $BaseDirectory
>>    $UserBaseDirectory
>>
> 
> It can be done for $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory:
> 
> The value of $BaseDirectory can be specified by setting the
> MATHEMATICA_BASE operating system environment variable when the
> Mathematica kernel is launched. It cannot be reset from inside the kernel.
> 
> The value of $UserBaseDirectory can be specified by setting the
> MATHEMATICA_USERBASE operating system environment variable when the
> Mathematica kernel is launched. It cannot be reset from inside the kernel.
> 
> $AddOnsDirectory and $UserAddOnsDirectory are undocumented in version 6
> and will be set to $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory, respectivly,
> at least on my Windows XP with Mathematica 6.0.2.
> 
> hth,
> 
> albert
> 

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• References:
  • Re: Notebooks location
    • From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
  • Re: Notebooks location
    • From: Albert Retey <awnl@arcor.net>