Thank you Roberto and Richard for your replies.
What I am trying to do is run a perl script that prompts me for maxima
input and then feed that input via the script into maxima and then
process the output. The first problem is to get the input into maxima.
Roberto's solution works, but from Richard's reply it seems if I want to
avoid this I have to do things at the lisp level.
The solution I probably want is that which is used in the netmath
browser. I looked at the netmath.tcl code, but until I learn some tcl,
I cannot discern where in the code the maxima input is processed by
maxima and how this is done.
If anyone has some suggestion or suggestions, I would be most
appreciative. If nothing else, I am learning things.
Dick Fell