quitting maxima



On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 19:44, jim cadien wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got maxima yesterday.  Installed the rpms, am using RH 9.0.  Right off 
> a problem popped up. In a terminal, I invoke it with maxima.  All seems 
> fine, but when I type  QUIT () it just hangs.

You have to type a ; to end an input line.

quit();

is the way to exit Maxima. You are not the first person to be confused
by this. I'm not sure how we could make it better, however.

--Jim