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Unable to use launched kdb+tick demo

I'm following the following kdb+tick demo: DEMO

There does not seem to be any error when I launch run.bat but all the q instances in the different cmd windows seem to be stuck.

Namely, the q) command does not show up, so after the process has displayed the q.q message, the cursor is blinking on an empty line. Therefore, I am unable to execute any queries.

The only window that does show something is ticker.bat which shows (after q.q message):

k){ON!x y}
'<
@
"q"
"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://ww..
q))

Why can't I use the other processes? How do I resolve this?

Solution

  • That error in ticker.bat is the process attempting to execute an html file as code. Check what arguments are in ticker.bat then check that source file. I think you'll find you've download html instead of the raw text version.