console maxima for windows xp



 > My question is twofold: 
 > 1) Is there a way to make xmaxima accept
 > INFILE without my direct intervent\ ion, 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
 > Dick Fell>

The following two lines in a bat file should 
run maxima 5.5 in console mode.

set MAXIMA_DIRECTORY=c:\maxima
c:\maxima\src\saved_maxima -dir c:\maxima\src\ %1

Moses