Richard -
Thanks, your suggestion works. Lisp does not understand ~. Replacing
that by /home/rfell and all works fine.
Dick
Richard Fateman wrote:
>
> I suspect your lisp is somehow not understanding
> your file specification, and also you are
> not using stringout correctly.
>
> Try a full name without ~ .
>
> stringout("foofile",c1,d1,d2,c2);
> is the syntax.
>
> richard noel fell wrote:
> >
> > 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
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