Re: shell startups



Steve Haflich <smh@franz.com> writes:

>    From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1 at gsfc>
>    
>    It is not objectionable, _if_ it is clearly documented. In the current
>    release, it is not clearly documented; I have to read the shell script
>    to figure it out; I gave up after 10 minutes.
>    
>    A simple DOS batch file (one for each lisp) in the maxima/bin
>    directory is a good way to document this kind of thing. 
>    
> On the very first page of the Allegro documentation ToC you'll find a
> link to "Allegro CL Startup (startup.htm)" and following that will
> quickly lead to this URL:
> 
> http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/startup.htm#command-line-args-1

This documents how to use Allegro lisp; it does not document how to run
Maxima using Allegro lisp.

It is the latter that the Maxima distribution has to provide.

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-- Stephe