Re: PDF support for the windows installer for PARI

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:09:32AM -0400, Charles Greathouse wrote:
> Oddly, ??sin gives only the short help:
> 
> (10:07) gp > ??sin
> sin(x):
> 
>    Sine of x.
> 
>    The library syntax is GEN gsin(GEN x, long prec).

No, no this is the long help. So gphelp is in the right directory.

> > Could you copy the line that end by "displaying 'tutorial.pdf'" which is
> printed
> in gp ?
> 
> Sure:
> 
> (10:07) gp > ??tutorial
> using 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe',
> displaying 'tutorial.pdf'.
> 
> The acrobat message: "There was an error opening this document. This file
> cannot be found."

Of course acrobat won't say the name of the file.

Very sad. 

Cheers,
Bill.