On Thursday 27 November 2003 05:15, C Y wrote:
>OH, I get it now. OK, you haven't tested enough examples ;-).
To check the second one we must have the poisson package itself.
> I toggled the Maxima specific stuff in, and was able to load, but when I
>tried the second demo example I got a failure:
>
>
>(C6) format((1+2*eps*(q+r*cos(g))^2)^4,%series(eps,2),%trig(g),factor);
>
>
>Error: The function POIS-SETUP is undefined.
>Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
>Error signalled by LISP:LET*.
>Broken at LISP:LET*. Type :H for Help.
>MAXIMA>>
That's because poisson package was not loaded.
>
>If you look at the file pois2m.ps you will see he altered some stuff to
>add functionality to Macsyma, and that was the file I couldn't upload.
>If we add the stuff he mentions in his paper to our own version we're
>probably OK,
I have another feeling. In the paper pois2m.ps Bruce write about changes to
existing poisson macsyma package. So we have no chance without pois2m.lisp!
>but I'm not sure how to proceed there. The one he altered
>was a Macsyma Inc. version, and probably had other changes from ours
>besided the ones he added. It will take some work to duplicate that,
>before we have the full format functionality.
Even this restricted functionality is very good, imho.
best rgds,
V