I think this is what you are after:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2004/007160.html
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--- Doug Stewart wrote:
> There is a thought of using Maxima from Octave, so I came here and
> have been learning Maxima for the last week.
>
> For starters I was going to make a Maxima batch file using Octave
> then start Maxima and have it do the batch file and write the
> results to a file. Then from octave read the file and convert the
> contents to Octave syntax.
>
> Has anyone tried this.
> I can now make a simple batch file ( not an expert yet) and
> I can write the results to a second file. ( had to use stringout in
> my winXP system)
> So what batch files get run at startup???
>
> Doug Stewart
>
>
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