Thanks Martin, as always, for your unstinting and generous help.  What then,
in your estimation, are the minimal requirements (virtual machine, X server,
whatever) to run a complete Axiom - including graphics and HyperDoc - on
windows?

Thanks,
Alasdair

On 18 Jun 2007 08:24:33 +0200, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

"Alasdair McAndrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1) What is the current state of using HyperDoc (or any other sort of
help
> browser) under windows - in particular with Axiom-0.1.4?

* Out of the box there is nothing.

* There is an experimental port by Tim Daly, with the important drawback
that
  there is no connection to Axiom, i.e., browse does *not* work

* There is the possibility of running axiom within a virtual machine, as
  proposed by Bill Page and Alfredo Portes.  I'd recommend that one.  This
is
  also the only way to get graphics on windows.  Furthermore, if you are
  interested in combinatorics, Polymake and therefore my Polymake-wrapper
only
  works on linux, too.  Together with axiom.el and SPADEDIT for gnu emacs
this
  makes quite a usable environment even for windows users.  (After
clicking on
  gnu emacs, they just need to press "Alt" then "x", type "axiom" and
  everything should work.

* There is the possibly half working hyperdoc replacement by myself, which
  needs an axiom process dedicated for documentation -- but which you can
run
  in the background, so you won't even notice.  So far it only can browse
  operations, and it's not really tested on windows.  Even if it is not
that
  much interesting for production work at the moment, I'd urge you to try
it
  and send me your experiences.

> 2) If I inadvertently quit HyperDoc while running Axiom, I can restart
it
> with )hd.  But )hd doesn't provide a socket connection; this new
HyperDoc is
> "not connected to Axiom".  Is there any way of starting a "connected"
> HyperDoc from an already-running Axiom?

No, but I'd love to see a fix for that bug, too.

All the best,

Martin


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