I need help with xmaxima, particularly on windows

Hello Nikolaos,

> Surely, there is no other choice! I agree! But on the other hand, there
> may be Maxima users in Windows (like me) who know to use XMaxima,
> but are not aware about the competitive possibilities of another
> interface in Windows like Emacs or Xemacs. To be sincere, I have
> never used Emacs neither do I know how to install it in Windows.

If you would like to test the use of Maxima in an Emacs shell, you can 
download Rosetta's cdrom iso file, burn a cdrom with it, and install it on 
you PC : Emacs is preinstalled, and using Maxima from it is described in 
this page:

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/EXT/ASTEX/astex/doc/en/rosetta/html/urse19.htm

Everything is run from the cd, only 0.3Mb of config files are written on 
the hard disk. The user's manual in pdf form can be downloaded from the 
link at the bottom of main page of the User's guide:

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/EXT/ASTEX/astex/doc/en/rosetta/html/urose.htm

> Naturally, I agree that there are problems with XMaxima, but, in
> any case, it can produce a reasonable way of preparing Maxima
> notebooks (with the exception of embedded plots) in a more or
> less easy way, moving inside them, saving them, recalling previous
> commands, getting help, etc. I do not have the experience to say
> if this is equivalent to a command-line interface.

Yes, I agree Maxima notebooks are very nice. The Rosetta cdrom contains 
both versions 5.5 and 5.9.0, and each version can be run directly from the 
cdrom by one click on a button, either in Xmaxima, or in a command window, 
or in an Emacs shell, without interacting with the other version. Adding 
the latest version 5.9.1, usable in a command window or in an Emacs shell, 
would be easy, I think. As a temporary solution (i.e. waiting for updated 
Xmaxima) this might allow, for example, to use Xmaxima 5.9.0 for current 
work, and use the latest version 5.9.1 to benefit of corrected bugs, 
additional Maxima packages or perform double-checking of results, etc.  
Would this be of any help for you?

Best wishes,

Michel.Lavaud@univ-orleans.fr
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