Any feedback on windows installer for Maxima 5.9.0.9beta2?

I installed Maxima 5.9.0.9beta2 on a Windows 2000 system. Noticed
the same problem about DESCRIBE not working. The good news is that
HELP (through the Windows menu) works fine. 

As I participated in a discussion about plots recently, I was
curious to see what examples James added to the description of help
options. Most of those examples worked nicely, but a few did not. As
I ran out of time, I was not able to double check those, and here,
at home, I use Linux, so I apologize if the examples I am going to
mention turn to be a false alarm, or if don't quite reproduce
examples/problems correctly. Here are some of the examples (from the
help file) that did not work for me today.

 1) plot2d([parametric,cos(t),sin(t),[t,-%pi/2,%pi/2]]);
 Instead of a half-circle, the plot I got was two quadrilaterals
 across each other. 
 Note: Looking at the describe("plot2d") in Maxima 5.9.0, I see that
 the corresponding example has the interval [-2*%pi,2*%pi]. Perhaps
 I did not copy the thing correctly on the paper, but that should
 not mater for what happened in the actual Maxima session earlier
 today, since there I used copy/paste facility, did not type any of
 the commands, this nor the other examples.
 
 2) An example that was supposed to produce plots of several trig
 functions and send the output into the file trig.eps: Maxima
 performed the task without a complaint, but the resulting trig.eps
 file was empty!
 
 3) The example of plot3d(atan(-x^2+y^3/4 ... ) with quite a few
 options including "unset surface", "unset key" ...: The plot window
 never came up, and I could not find any output file either. The
 example before that one (of plotting the same atan(-x^2+y^3/4)
 function) worked fine.
 
 4) I think that something like case 3) happened in the case of
 plot3d(cos(-x^2+y^3/4) ...) and also in the case of the Real Part
 of z^(1/3).
 
 5) The example:
     M:matrix([1,2,34],[1,2,3,2],[1,2,3,4],[1,2,3,3])$
		 f(x,y):=float(M[?round(x),?round(y)]);
		 plot3d(f,[x,1,4],[y,1,4],[grid,4,4]);
		 
		 ended with "Maxima encountered a Lisp error" message.
  
  6) The example about 
	   pointsl:?draw2d(1/x,[.05,10],.03)
		     (not sure if I copied this correctly)
     also ended with a "Maxima encountered a Lisp error" message.
		 
Hope this will be of some use.

Milan
Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) [02/08/04 10:29 +1000]:
> David Billinghurst wrote:
> > From: James Amundson
> >> 
> >> The second beta release for Maxima 5.9.1, aka Maxima 5.9.0.9beta2, is
> >> now available from the Sourceforge site.
> >> A windows installer will be added when it becomes available.
> > 
> > Windows installer uploaded yesterday.
> 
> I see there have been 26 downloads of the windows installer.
> Has anyone tried it?  
> 
> I have some time this week to work on fixes, but may be away from
> the office next week.
> 
> 	David
> 
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