Hi Jesper.
I just realised that after an experiment with the native Ghostscript rather
than the Cygwin one, I accidentally used the non-console version of gs for
the *imaxima-work* test.
In fact, what I get at startup in the *imaxima-work* buffer is the Maxima
prompt and a second blank line.
That does not change after executing "1+2;" at the Maxima prompt:
(C1)
<CURSOR HERE>
Sorry for the misinformation.
Mike Thomas.