>>  No powershell, it's very tightly locked down

not even the shortcut to run programs - 
Windows key+r

On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 3:36:56 PM UTC-4 knigh...@gmail.com wrote:

> No powershell, it's very tightly locked down
>
> Maybe someone can give feedback (will it work) on this hack
>
> Hmmm ... If there's no easy, quick way I'll try to run a windows VM at 
> home,  
> install in that VM, and copy racket from the VM's Windows 
> "Program Files"
>  folder to a USB, and put that on my work machine
>
> On Saturday, June 18, 2022 at 2:55:21 PM UTC-4 Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> So before I would download the minimal windows tar file to a linux 
>> system, untar it, and then zip it back up.
>>
>> Then that could be copied to the corporate windows system and unzipped. 
>>  And that give a minimal Racket.
>>
>> The part that has stopped working is I used to be able to, from cmd, run:
>>
>> raco pkg install -i racket-lib
>> raco pkg install --deps search-auto -i main-distribution
>>
>> And I would have a fully working Racket.
>>
>> So this required cmd.exe to be run.  Can you run Powershell?  That can be 
>> convinced to do those commands as well but I don't know how to do that. 
>>  There might even be some way in minimal racket to convince those commands 
>> to be run.
>>
>> What does not work anymore is that one of the packages is blocked by the 
>> corporate proxy now as a "virus" so minimal racket it is.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> bruce
>>
>> On 2022-06-18T18:06:54.000+02:00, knigh...@gmail.com <knigh...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Is there a plain ZIP file for kind-of installing racket? (must be ZIP - I 
>> can't even get a 7zip uninstaller installed).
>> I won't be able to put it in the standard Program Files folder and can't 
>> associate rkt files but I'm allowed to set up a plain directory and run 
>> from there. 
>>
>> I may download and work with files, but I have no admin on this 
>> Windows 10 system
>> not even cmd - it's disallowed.
>>
>>
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