CY is correct; to load specfun in Maxima 5.9.0, use load("specfun").
(C1) load("specfun");
(D1) C:/maxima/Maxima/share/maxima/5.9.0/share/specfunctions/specfun.mac
(C2)
Why the mismatch? The specfun library and its documentation are few years
old and
the directory structure of Maxima has changed, some things in the
documentation
are GCL specific (GCL is a Common Lisp), and etc. I'm working on an
updated
specfun library and documentation; when it's finished, we should eliminate
such
inconsistencies.
Watch this list for an announcement of the new specfun library (renamed
orthopoly),
and you can help test it. I don't know when this will be; like all work
on
Maxima, it's a volunteer effort.
Incidentally, in the new orthopoly documentation, function names are lower
case
(unlike most of the Maxima documentation). I'm anticipating the day
(yippee)
that Maxima is case-sensitive.
Barton (the specfun author and maintainer)
Andrea Riciputi <ariciputi@pito.com>
Sent by: maxima-admin@www.ma.utexas.edu
04/10/2003 08:37 AM
To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
cc:
Subject: [Maxima] A little help for beginners.
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)