using maxima as a batch operation



Harry Kanda wrote:

>This is an odd request but.. does anyone know how to do the following.
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>i want to be in Command Line (cmd.exe not maxima) and type the following in:
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>maxima someFunction(expression)
>and then whilst still in cmd.exe get the output!
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>Anyone know if this is possible, if it's been implemented or if i'm
>just being sillly!
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>Harry
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I am working in windows so this is how I do it.

I have a  rmaxima.bat  file with the following in it


type inmax.mac | C:\"Program Files"\Maxima-5.9.1\bin\maxima.bat   >  
maxout.txt



This takes the file called   inmax.mac pipes it to the built in file 
from maxima called maxima.bat
 and puts the results out to maxout.txt

The way I use this is to edit  inmax.mac  so that it has all the 
commands you want to execute.
then run  rmaxima
then look in the file maxout.txt for the answers

This is my way of running Maxima from inside Octave :-)

Doug Stewart