Hi,
I've been trying Maxima and lurking the list for a couple of months.
I've been a Mathematica user for years and I think Maxima could be a
good candidate for a change.
Anyway I have some problems and I'm sure you can help me:
1) I'm not able to use special functions because every time I try:
load("specfun.o")$
I get the following error message:
Could not find `specfun.o' using paths in
FILE_SEARCH_MAXIMA,FILE_SEARCH_LISP...
Reading the file specfun.usg I've learned that I have install them. But
the problem here is that all the .mc files have been renamed .mac while
in test_specfun.mac the code says:
translate_file("specfun.mc");
load("./specfun.LISP");
Why this mismatch??
2) Another problem comes with the documentation. Maxima Manual is very
terse and it's hard to read. I saw a maximabook directory in the source
tarball, but I was unable to generate it using make. Any hints here?
Thanks in advance,
Andrea.
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Andrea Riciputi
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out,
but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- (Richard Feynman)