Apparently, init.lsp is loaded before the maxima system. Thus
my autoload example
(defprop |$hermite| #"specfun.o" autoload)
(add2lnc '|$hermite| $props)
is bogus because defprop is undefined when init.lsp is loaded.
(Maybe my example worked for commercial macsyma, or maybe I'm
loopy.) Further, the init.lsp initialization file may be gcl
specific.
If anyone can give me a hint where a ($load "maxima-init.lisp")
statement could be appended to the maxima source code, I'll
try to do it.
Barton