Because it was very late and I wanted to go to bed :-). -----Original Message----- From: Mike Clarkson [mailto:mike at python] Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 7:49 To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu Subject: xmaxima (David Billinghurst, why did you use the "gruesome hack" ro communicate instead of the command line args approach?)