Questions and testsuite (Re: [Maxima] Running testsuite)

    >> With this fix, the testsuite begins to run and should now prompt to
    >> see if z is zero or nonzero.  Except the prompt never shows up, but
    >> maxima is waiting for you to enter something.  Even after you enter
    >> nonzero, maxima is still waiting for something, but I can't figure out
    >> what.
    >> 
    >> I'm pretty sure this used to work.
    >> 
    >> Anyone seeing anything like this?
    >> 

    David> I see the same in the share/contrib/diffequations tests, although from 
    David> memory the old behaviour was to prompt repeatedly until the testsuite
    David> was killed manually (or the disk filled up).

My vague memory says it worked, but I might be wrong.

    David> I worked around the problem with assume()s and forget()s.

I was doing that, but thought it wasn't working, but the real bug was
using equal instead of alike to compare maxima objects.

With this change, the test suite runs now.  Thanks for the
suggestions!

I now have to fix up the testsuite so that it actually has the correct
values. :-)

Ray