Thanks, that worked fine!
Now - I don't want to have to go through the arduous business of downloading
masses of stuff before I can compile Axiom on Windows (and neither do my
students). All I want is one simple installation file: download, install
and that's it. Do you know if the current Windows binary will ever be
upgraded?
Thanks,
Alasdair
On 8/13/07, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/07, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Axiom with some cryptography students; at this very early
> stage we
> > are having fun with very simple ciphers (Vigenere, Hill, etc), so we
> need to
> > transfer from a string to a list of integers.
> >
> > Here is how to reproduce the bug: on windows Axiom, enter the following
> > tiny function:
> >
> > str2lst(str)==map(x +-> ord(x)-65,members(str))
> >
> > Now try to use it:
> >
> > str2lst("ABCD")
> >
> > Axiom will crash (apparently it creates an error log, but I don't know
> where
> > to find this log). Help or advice would be very welcome!
> >
>
> The current installer program for Axiom on Windows installs an older
> version of Axiom in which the
>
> )set function compile on
>
> bug was not yet fixed (refer to IssueTracker on the wiki). You should
> try issuing this command before the function definition. This cures
> most problems with functions in this older version of Axiom.
>
> I tried your function definition using a version of Axiom on windows
> compiled from the FriCAS sources and it works fine. Compiling Axiom on
> Windows using the build-improvements or wh-sandbox branches should
> also work fine. If you need some help doing that, just ask or see the
> page
>
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/BuildAxiom
>
> on the wiki.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
>
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