Re: Documentation of 'output'

As a follow-up for anyone who happens to see this thread later: 
installing FriCAS as explained by Martin Rubey in a separate thread 
today does indeed fix my problem with searching the library 
documentation.

The killing of all HyperDoc windows by closing any one of them (with 
the window manager's Close command) still happens.

- Robert

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Robert Funnell wrote:

> Thanks for the additional information. I'll try the SPADEDIT thing when I'm 
> feeling particularly masochistic :-)
>
> My HyperDoc does crash if I try to search the library documentation in the 
> Browser. It says
>    Cannot open the file /usr/lib/axiom-20050901/algebra/libdb.text.
> and kills not only the Browser window but also the top-level HyperDoc window. 
> I don't know why that file is missing. I'm using the version of Axiom in 
> Debian Etch.
>
> Another surprising behaviour is that if I kill one of the secondary windows 
> using the operating system's (GNOME's) close-window command, the top-level 
> HyperDoc window also dies. Sometimes this also seems to cause the main Axiom 
> command line to stop acting properly, such that I can give a )quit command 
> but it doesn't quit, so I have to kill the Axiom process from outside. I 
> can't seem to replicate it right now.
>
> In spite of all this whining, I'm very happy: thanks to the great help from 
> you and Bill Page, I have managed to write some Axiom code to solve my 
> problem, with 4 levels of nested loops to do parameter variations, and a 
> bunch of if-then-else's! I even figured out how to select the right one of 
> the 3 solutions to the cubic (defined with 4 equations in 4 unknowns) and 
> squirt all the results into a TeXmacs document :-)
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Robert