Maybe you can look into the .juliarc file at the line where it is telling
you the error is and see if anything looks strange.
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:11:54 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote:
>
> No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I didn't delete
> what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange that this error
> message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not doing anything that I
> haven't been doing for the last 6 months.
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>> That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you deleted
>> the old one? If so, what's in it?
>>
>> I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one that
>> Julia's looking at.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson <a_d_m_...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using daily
>>> since February) I received this error message :
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format:
>>> If you have a history file left over from an older version of Julia,
>>> try renaming or deleting it.
>>> Invalid character: '#' at line 465034
>>> in error at error.jl:22
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history format") suggested
>>> deleting
>>> the julia_history file. I tried this, and it did not work. Next I
>>> uninstalled Julia and re-installed the latest (0.4.6) version. The error
>>> message is the same.
>>>
>>> Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 Enterprise.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>
