Jürgen Tischer wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2001 10:43, you wrote:
<snip> ... what does this mean....
>
> Correctable error: Console interrupt.
> Signalled by MACSYMA-TOP-LEVEL.
> If continued: Type :r to resume execution, or :q to quit to top level.
> Broken at SYSTEM:TERMINAL-INTERRUPT. Type :H for Help.
> MAXIMA>>
This means that you have stopped the program during the execution of
the program "macsyma-top-level". It was waiting for input, probably.
You hit ^c^c.
> but once it said
>
> (C3) Solve((a^2+1)*x^2+a^3*x+1=0,x);
>
> Correctable error: Console interrupt.
> Signalled by PCPLUS.
> If continued: Type :r to resume execution, or :q to quit to top level.
>
> Process Maxima aborted
At the first ^c or maybe the second, you interrupted it
when it was inside the program during the execution of "pcplus"
which I happen to know is a program that is part of the
polynomial arithmetic package. I think it is defined in
file rat3a.
But you probably hit another ^c or two, so instead of resuming
the computation or quitting to top level, you killed the process.
This is not what you wanted, probably. And it may be possible
to get GCL or whatever lisp you are using to do something else.
I am not an expert on these various lisps. I almost always
used Allegro CL, although I also have a "prepackaged" maxima
for windows which presumably has GCL underneath.
RJF
RJF