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
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>> > 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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