newbie question re expand



>>From: Stavros Macrakis [mailto:stavros.macrakis at verizon] 
>> Could you please include a transcript of the problem, as well as full
>> configuration information as given by the build_info() command?

(C1) build_info();

Maxima version: 5.9.0
Maxima build date: 19:10 2/9/2003
host type: i686-pc-mingw32
lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto Common Lisp
lisp-implementation-version: GCL-2-5.0

I don't think it is a problem with the equation, but with my variable
names:

When I change them from

a0, a1, ..., a9, b0, b1, ..., b9, c0, c1, ..., c9

to

a, b, c, ..., z, a1, a0, b0, c0,

the problem goes away, (presumably because the total length of the
variable names is smaller?) and I can solve the easier problem of
retranslating my variable names. 

I've run a few tests and they seem to bear out my hypothesis about the
combined length of the variable names causing the problem when it
exceeds a certain threshhold.

If running on RedHat versus Windows would help I can do that fairly
easily,
but I haven't tried that yet.

Dennis Farr