It is likely "~/.juliarc" that is the file you are after.
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:47:16 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: > > Hi Kristoffer, > > I don't know if this is the right file (/julia-0.4.6/etc/julia/juliarc), > but this is what it says: > > # This file should contain site-specific commands to be executed on Julia > startup > # Users should store their own personal commands in homedir(), in a file > named .juliarc.jl > > # Set up environment for Julia Windows binary distribution > ENV["PATH"] = > JULIA_HOME*";"*joinpath(JULIA_HOME,"..","Git","bin")*";"*ENV["PATH"] > > > Should there be more here? > > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:36:10 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson > wrote: >> >> Maybe you can look into the .juliarc file at the line where it is telling >> you the error is and see if anything looks strange. >> >> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:11:54 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>> >>> No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I didn't >>> delete what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange that this >>> error message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not doing anything >>> that I haven't been doing for the last 6 months. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>
