I am a math genius. Please tell me how to make Maxima work

Hi there.

  But I can't get -r <string>, (command line is not interactive?)
or --batch-string
  to work. If I use the batch mode, where is the session information getting
  stored.


It looks like there is a quoting problem with the batch file.  I found that
this worked on Windows XP at a normal command prompt:

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C:\>c:\lang\Maxima-5.9.1\lib\maxima\5.9.1\binary-gcl\maxima -eval
"(user::run)" -f -- --batch-string="diff(cos(x),x);"

Maxima 5.9.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp Kyoto Common Lisp GCL 2.6.5 (aka GCL)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
provides bug reporting information.
(%i1)                           DIFF(COS(x), x)
(%o1)                              - SIN(x)
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Don't know about Windows scripting host I'm sorry.

Cheers

Mike Thomas