On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 07:54, Stephen Leake wrote:
> I'm not interested in Allegro; I'm just interested in using Maxima to
> optimize some functions I need for my spacecraft simulator. Using
> maxima with GCL appears to be the easiest way for me to get there.
>
> Just to make sure I'm being clear on the documentation I was talking
> about; I was trying to say that it needs to be clear to the Maxima
> user how to run Maxima using whatever lisp they want. On Windows,
> putting a batch file in maxima/bin that runs maxima with each
> supported lisp provides that documentation. Given that, I can figure
> out how to run Maxima from Emacs, or an icon, or whatever. I don't
> think the Maxima project should try to support _all_ of the possible
> front ends for Maxima.
I misunderstood your comment. Sorry for the confusion.. I agree that the
process needs to be documented in a script/batch file. My current
solution did not take windows into sufficient account. I'll make sure
the wrapping gets fixed for subsequent releases.
--Jim