Re: [sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Thats it, with the non-Dropbox folder everything is as expected. You should be able to load files from there. It seems that the Dropbox filesystem is incompatible with VirtualBox shared folders. I'll add a note to the wiki to that extend. On Saturday, April 6, 2013 6:00:16 PM UTC+1, Gary McCo

Re: [sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Gary McConnell
hi I installed an upgrade of VM around about the time of Sage 5.8 release ... the response to os.system('ls -alZ /media') is: ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 . dr-xr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:roo

[sage-support] How to solve trigonometric parametrization?

2013-04-06 Thread Neda
Hello, Could you please tell me how can I solve a trigonometric parametrization, for example using a trigonometric identity to show that x= cos(t) y= cos(2t) parametrizes a portion of a parabola so indicate what portion of the parabola is coverd.. thank you -- You received this message

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Strange, you do see the sf_Auxiliary_files but somehow it can't be accessed. It should have worked. Are you using a reasonably recent VirtualBox version (try Help->Check for updates)? To check permissions, what is the output of os.system('ls -alZ /media') Finally, what is your host OS? Also,

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
slightly more helpfully: if I do each separately I get sf_Auxiliary_files 0 and: ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory 512 On Saturday, April 6, 2013 4:50:50 PM UTC+2, GaryMak wrote: > > Hi - sorry for delay - thanks - I must have done something wrong - I get:

[sage-support] Re: Help with SageTeX

2013-04-06 Thread Gabriel
Hello, Thank you a lot for your reply! Yes, indeed, I did all that in my test file, there is %!TEX TS-program = sage \documentclass[12pt]{article} ... \usepackage{sagetex} and I use the sage.engine of TeXShop which looks like this: #!/bin/bash PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin filename=$

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
Hi - sorry for delay - thanks - I must have done something wrong - I get: sf_Auxiliary_files ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory 512 On Saturday, April 6, 2013 1:20:37 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > Some of the docs are out of date (sorry, feel free to upda

[sage-support] Re: Help with SageTeX

2013-04-06 Thread kcrisman
On Saturday, April 6, 2013 6:59:29 AM UTC-4, Gabriel wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've just found this Sage Group recently while trying to install Sage and > to make it work with LaTeX. I followed (I think) all instructions in the > installation guide (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/inde

Re: [sage-support] comparing lists

2013-04-06 Thread John Cremona
On 6 April 2013 05:58, Darth Pookie wrote: > Hello, > > I am generating two lists that represent ordered pairs. I have three lists > called j,k,l, from which I make my ordered pairs. Let's say I have one list > of pairs (lets call it list1) that is made up of j and k. I have another > list o

[sage-support] comparing lists

2013-04-06 Thread Darth Pookie
Hello, I am generating two lists that represent ordered pairs. I have three lists called j,k,l, from which I make my ordered pairs. Let's say I have one list of pairs (lets call it list1) that is made up of j and k. I have another list of pairs (lets call it list2) that is made up of j and l

[sage-support] Help with SageTeX

2013-04-06 Thread Gabriel
Hello all, I've just found this Sage Group recently while trying to install Sage and to make it work with LaTeX. I followed (I think) all instructions in the installation guide (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/index.html) and I am stuck in TeXShop (MacTeX 2012) while trying to compile

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Braun
Some of the docs are out of date (sorry, feel free to update the wiki as necessary) but the shared folder section should work. And does work for me. Whats the output of os.system('ls /media') os.system('ls /media/sf_Auxiliary_files') on your machine? You should get a list of files... On Sat

[sage-support] Re: Saving sws files in VirtualBox lab situation

2013-04-06 Thread GaryMak
OK ... this is a very sad day ... I am finally going to have to admit publicly now that I cannot even follow the instructions at Section4 of http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance in order to get my VM to be able to see python scripts I download from the kind people in this GoogleGroup ... I at