The notion of what HOME is on Windows is a bit confusing and ambiguous. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> >
