You found a bug. I can reproduce it, but only under GCL. (I'm sure it
isn't GCL's fault, however.) It will get fixed.
In the meantime, you can entire single lisp commands by starting a
command with :lisp. For example,
(C1) :lisp (format t "hello~%")
hello
NIL
(C1)
Thanks,
Jim
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:04, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running maxima 5.9.0rc3 built with gcl 2.4.3 compiled by gcc 2.96.
>
> When i try to use the to_lisp() function (per the info files), it
> causes maxima to exit.
>
> That is, i type
> to_lisp();
> and it types
> Type (run) to restart
> but exits immediately afterwards. The exit status is 0, and there are
> no error messages or core files. This is on red hat 7.3 (GNU/Linux).
>
> (On the other hand, maxima itself certainly seems to be working: it
> can factor, plot, etc.)
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions (including references to any
> faqs---is there one?).
>
> Also thanks to all who put this system together, i'd like to migrate
> to it if i can.
>
> dan
>
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