[plt-scheme] Re: Can't run Dr. Scheme

Glad to hear that you got it working!

Just a quick followup: have you ever installed or run DrScheme before?
If you have, what version was it?

Thanks,
Robby

On Dec 11, 2007 9:17 AM, sasuke <database666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, thanks to all those who replied to my thread for helping
> me out. I really appreciate it.
>
> On Dec 11, 7:54 pm, "Robby Findler" <ro... at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> > I'm guessing that Matthew's found the answer, so probably best to try
> > that first (deleting the preferences file).
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > On Dec 11, 2007 8:52 AM, Jens Axel Soegaard <jensa... at soegaard.net> wrote:
> >
> > > sasuke wrote:
> >
> > > > I would still like to hear if any of you have some suggestions I could
> > > > try out.
> >
> > > Yet another idea:
> > >    1. Install DrScheme on an XP box.
> > >    2. Manually copy the texpict directory.
> >
> > > /Jens Axel
>
> Considering that I don't know about the underlying architecture of Dr.
> Scheme or about the language itself, I tried out something logical
> which worked for me.
>
> I opened the rogue file "rep.ss" in my text editor and located the
> function which was causing Dr. Scheme to throw an exception and
> commented it entirely. It's the one on line 1237 with a comment
> ";;setup the special repl values" on top of it. After doing that I
> started Dr. Scheme and it loaded just fine.
>
> Again I go the file "rep.ss" and uncomment the part which I had
> commented and Dr. Scheme still worked fine. I guess after successful
> startup, it must have fixed the 'plt-pref.ss' file as Matthew  said
> earlier. Neat, isn't it? ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot again. :-)
>
> Regards,
> sasuke.
>
>
>
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