RE: [Axiom-developer] Compile errors on Axiom 2004-11-15

[Bill Page]

On Saturday, December 18, 2004 11:33 AM Meino Christian Cramer
wrote:
> 
>  after hacking the xiom script, I got axiom up and running.
> 

What is the 'xiom' script? I do not remember a script by this
name in the current version of axiom.

Normally the graphics cabable version of axiom is started
with the command

  sman

that provided socket communication services and starts a
special X-windows processes that does the graphics.


>  From the book I tried the command
> 
>         draw((x**2), x=0..10)
> 
>  and got a lot of "loading...." message, which ends up in:
> 
>     Loading /usr/axiom/mnt/linux/algebra/COORDSYS.o for package 
>       CoordinateSystems 
>    Graph data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
>    AXIOM2D data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
> 
>    (1)  TwoDimensionalViewport: "x*x"
>                                                  Type: 
> TwoDimensionalViewport
> 
>  That's it...
> 
>  No plot, no result, no error....nothing else. 
> 

Are you running this from inside the X-windows environment?

Regards,
Bill Page.