Differences between Maxima and Macsyma and GPL vs. commercial version

Hi Cliff.

| Actually, that reminds me - does anyone know if the gnuplot stuff works
| in Windows?

I tried Maxima (release version) Gnuplotting on Windows last week and after
tweaking the script to conform with my system, failed with piping problems
(why - I don't know - but I have positive feelings for the future - why - I
don't know!).  The latest versions of GnuPlot are looking pretty powerful so
I think that there may be lots of potential for this route if someone has
the time.

I also got colour postscript output of XMaxima plots from the plot window
save button (after some tweaking, from memory, of the name of gsview32 in
the plot window print options menu), but with misaligned borders on some
plots.  Once again I haven't worked out why some plots were aligned and
others not.

Cheers

Mike Thomas