On Jan 24, 2008 10:05 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > > > I finally figured out how to get 7zip to unzip > > > sage-vmware and that produced a folder with jillions files.The > > > instructions > > > in the readme file (included below) say to click on sage.vmx. This file > > > is > > > NOT in the folder. So I clicked on every folder until I finally found the > > > one that works. It is called simply sage (Vmware configuration file) in > > > my > > > machine. There is no ,vmx extension on the file name. I recall that this > > > fooled William when he was installing sage on my office pc. You might > > > want > > > to change the instructions in the readme file. > > > > Is Windows hiding filename extensions? The fact that it said (Vmware > > configuration file) seems to indicate that the extension was there, > > but Windows wasn't showing it to you... > > My thought here is to rename sage.vmx to sage_vmx.vmx. Windows hides > file extensions by default and so 95% of Windows users are going to > have difficulties locating the vmx file. >
Wow, that's an extremely good idea. I'm testing it right now, and will do it if it works. Thanks! [...] Yep it works fine. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
