I am temporarily using maxima with windows xp and would like to run a perl
script in the same manner that I do on my linux system.
In my linux perl script, I have the following line:
system{"maxima <INFILE >OUTFILE") which directs the contents of INFILE to maxima
and writes to results to OUTFILE. Since I am calling the console version, I can
redirect standard input and standard output.
The analogous command on the windows platform is:
system("c:\\maxima\\src\\xmaxima, INFILE, OUTFILE");
The problem is that this calls xmaxima, not the console version as on the linux
system. In this case, when reaching this point in the perl script, xmaxima
appears and waits for my commands from the keyboard, not from INFILE.
My question is twofold:
1) Is there a way to make xmaxima accept INFILE without my direct intervention,
as in issuing a batch command for instance on a command line?
2) Better still, is there a console mode for windows maxima? This is what I am
really looking for. I can find nothing in c:\maxima that looks like an
executable for a console mode.
Thanks for any help.
Dick Fell>