How to assign partial list



Hi -

  new to maxima-list, and I did not find this in the 2003-archive:
  I have a list, created by a cf(x)-function-call.
  I want to use only the first n-entries of the list.
  In some matrix-languages you write something like

     y := x(1..n)   or
     y = x[1:n] or something like.

  Is that possible in maxima too?

thanks -

Gottfried Helms
Uni Kassel