Does stringout work?



On redhat 7.1 with maxima-5.6, stringout does not seem to work. First of
all, it complains when I try to specify a file. For instance,
(c1) integrate(x^2,x)$
(c2) stringout("~/maxima/scratch/temp.bat",c1);
Error: cannot create file  ~/maxima/scratch/temp.bat, 
....

Next, I try stringout without any file specification.
(c1) integrate(x^2,x)$
(c2) stringout(c1);
(d2)			/home/rfell/c1;

But, the file c1 is empty.

I think my snytax is correct as this syntax works with commercial
Macsyma on windows 2000.
Thanks,
Dick Fell