On 7/15/2015 10:08 PM, rwg wrote:
(Come to think of it, is there a way to run the version 9 or version 10 kernel using the version 8 front end?)
Sure. In Front End's Evaluation Menu choose "Kernel Configuration Options..", which will bring up a window, where press button "Add". This brings up another window titled "Kernel Properties". In this window you choose the name of the kernel (Kernel Name field), say v10 or v9, and full path to the standalone kernel of the corresponding version of Mathematica. For instance, on Windows, this would typically be one the following: C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\9.0\MathKernel.exe C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\10.0\MathKernel.exe C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\10.1\MathKernel.exe When using v8 FE, you can now choose the newly added kernel as Notebook's Kernel through the evaluation menu and evaluate $Version to make sure the kernel is operational. You can even set this kernel as the Default Kernel to be automatically used for all notebooks. This is actually pretty handy and I use such setup daily, but then again, I work for Wolfram. Hope it helps, Oleksandr