[Scilab-users] Atoms fail and changing SCIHOME

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Le 12/03/2015 07:24 PM, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Le 03/12/2015 17:10, amonmayr at laas.fr a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We've just discovered that on scilab 5.5.2, atoms is not working on 
>> our Windows machines:
>>
>> atomsGUI()
>> WARNING: mputl: Cannot open file \\servername\username\[..skipping 
>> some boring stuff...]\scilab-5.5.2\.atoms\config.
>>
>> It might be a problem with our setup where the homedir of our users 
>> are on network shares.
>> Many Windows scripts are failing when accessing the files using the 
>> network path "\\servername\username\..."
>> The network shares "\\servername\username" are mapped locally to a 
>> drive letter "Z:" and usually, changing the path from 
>> "\\servername\username\..." to "Z:\\..." solves the problem of write 
>> access.
>>
>> So here is my question how do I change SCIHOME (to replace 
>> "\\servername\username\" by "Z:\")?
>> I tried, predef, looking in scilab.start, ... but without success.
> .
> For Scilab on Windows, Scilab uses the environment variable (of the 
> OS) APPDATA to build SCIHOME, and TMP to build TMPDIR.
> The only way to change these Scilab variables is to run Scilab from a 
> batch file in which the environment variables are priorly set to what 
> you want for Scilab.
>

Do you have an example of such script?
I daily do things like that under Linux, but I am more than rusty when 
it comes to Windows batch!
Anyway, I am not sure changing APPDATA will solve the problem, but it's 
worth a try.

Cheers,

Antoine

> We daily use such a configuration now for years, with Scilab installed 
> on a shared place on our internal network, and it works.
>
> HTH
> Samuel
>


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