Re: Starting FriCAS not in the $HOME directory

On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 06:14:40PM +0200, Gr=C3=A9gory Vanuxem wrote:
> Hi Waldek,
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> Many thanks for this quick response and fix. Just tested on official FriC=
AS
> and the 2 problems you mentioned previously gone away.
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> The .fricas.input file is still not "read" but for my mid-term work it is
> not a big problem, my startup file is just displaying computation times a=
nd
> augmenting line length of output to 110. Maybe this is related to my Kali
> distribution on WSL2, I don't know.
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> The )read command is to blame on my settings:
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> (1) -> )sys pws
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>    >> System error:
>    INTERNAL-SIMPLE-ERROR: The assertion !posix_spawnp(&pid, *p1,
> &file_actions, &attr, (void *)p1, environ) on line 65 of o/unixsys.c in
> function vsystem failed: No such file or directory
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> (1) -> )sys pwd
> /home/greg
> (1) -> )sys ls -l .fricas.input
> -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 35 Feb 11 09:42 .fricas.input
> (1) -> )read .fricas.input
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>    The file .fricas.input is needed but does not exist.

AFAICS the problem is due to PATHNAME-TYPE in gcl:

)lisp (PATHNAME-TYPE "/home/hebisch/.fricas.input")

Value =3D "fricas.input"
(1) ->=20

All other Lisp implementations that we use return "input".

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                              Waldek Hebisch

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