Justin C. Walker wrote:
> Thanks, William,
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:26 PM, William Stein wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> I am helping someone who has a Windows system, and wants to use Sage.
>>>
>>> She has the VMWare gizmo set up and working fine. I have a silly
>>> problem, due to my long history of Windows Rejection: I have a file
>>> on Windows that I want to "attach" in the Sage notebook. Can that be
>>> done? The obvious doesn't work ("/home/user/D:/Documents/..." not
>>> found).
>
>> It's possible but you have to set up some sort of sharing
>> between Windows and VMware. I.e., the Windows filesystem
>> (or some subset of it) has to be made available to vmware.
>> This is I think very easy in VMware Workstation via menus. I don't
>> know
>> if it is easy or not in VMware player. I don't actually have access
>> to a windows machine right now, so i can't give step-by-step
>> directions. I hope somebody else can promptly respond to
>> this email who can.
>
> I'll poke at VMWare when I see her next. If anyone has some good
> ideas, I'd love to hear `em.
Can't you upload the file as a "data file" and then attach it from
there? That way everything is done from the notebook.
Jason
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