Mario writes:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a little problem and I am sure someone here will give me back a rapid
> and accurate solution :-)
>
> Is it possible to know from within Maxima on which operating system is it
> running?
>
> I am writing a package in Maxima code with some calls to Gnuplot. But I need
> Maxima to know how to call Gnuplot:
>
> system("wgnuplot maxout.gnuplot") /*windows*/
> or
> system("gnuplot maxout.gnuplot") /*linux*/
>
> The package is intended to be used by my pupils, but some of them (sorry :-( ,
> most of them) run Maxima on Windows.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Mario.
You need $gnuplot_command lisp variable or
just gnuplot_command on Maxima level.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov