On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM, VictorMiller <victorsmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm in the notebook and I typed > > os.system('magma') > > It's now over 5 minutes, and it still hasn't come back! While I was > waiting I went a terminal and typed magma and it started within less > than a second. > Something weird.
What about os.system('magma < /dev/null') William > > Victor > > On May 28, 6:55 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:33 PM, VictorMiller <victorsmil...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > 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? >> >> What happens if you do this on the command line: >> >> sage: magma.eval('2+2') >> >> What happens if you type this in a notebook cell: >> >> sage: os.system('magma') >> >> William >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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? >> >> >> > -- >> >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> > For more options, visit this group >> >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> >> -- >> >> William Stein >> >> Professor of Mathematics >> >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org >> >> > -- >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org