Doug Stewart writes:
> Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>>Doug Stewart writes:
>>>I tried appendfile and it is no better.:-(
>>Are you using some graphical interface like Xmaxima?
> Im using the windows wizard insall ver from:
Sorry, I am ignorant of Windows specific aspects of running Maxima, so
I don't know how your reply answers my question.
Anyway, here's the reason why I asked this:
`appendfile' (and in GCL, DRIBBLE and hence `writefile' as well)
assumes that all interactive streams refer to *terminal-io*, so that
setting the latter stream variable affects all interactive streams.
This assumption is true for a command-line version of a GCL based
Maxima, but it is not true for some (perhaps graphical) interface
which talks to Maxima via a socket (this is a bug, but there's already
a fix for this).
A way to distinguish between these situation is to type
:lisp (boundp '*socket-connection*)
If this returns T (perhaps after typing a trailing `;' or otherwise
trying to get some attention) the problem is likely explained by what
I said above. Otherwise, I have no idea.
Wolfgang