More data:  If I start sage and then type

!magma

it starts up Magma.  I then exit from it (by typing "exit;") and start
the notebook.

However, if I try to run magma from the notebook, I get the message

"Type Error: unable to start magma"

What's going on?

Victor

On May 28, 2:11 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, VictorMiller <victorsmil...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > I have magma and sage 4.4.1 installed on my macbook pro.  I've made
> > sure that the magma command is on my PATH.  Yet when I run sage, and I
> > try and call to magma.eval, it says that it can't find magma.  This
> > has worked without problem on my linux workstation at work.  So what
> > needs to be done to have sage find my installation of magma?  The page
> >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/interfaces/magma.html
> > doesn't say anything about this.
>
> > Victor
>
> Start sage and type
>
>    sage: !magma
>
> What happens?
>
>
>
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