That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you deleted the old one? If so, what's in it?
I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one that Julia's looking at. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using daily since > February) I received this error message : > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format: > If you have a history file left over from an older version of Julia, > try renaming or deleting it. > Invalid character: '#' at line 465034 > in error at error.jl:22 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history format") suggested deleting > the julia_history file. I tried this, and it did not work. Next I > uninstalled Julia and re-installed the latest (0.4.6) version. The error > message is the same. > > Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 Enterprise. > > Thanks > > Andy > >
