Hi,
the --server command line option is misleading. Running 'maxima
--server port' does not start a maxima server. Maxima will try to
connect to a server running on that port (and since there is no server
on that port you get connection refused error).
HTH,
Andrej
On 2/14/06, qwert2003 <qwert2003 at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hello
>
> When I try the command
> > maxima --server 9734
> I get the following error messages and it enters the Lisp debugger.
> > WARNING: *FOREIGN-ENCODING*: reset to ASCII
> > jfa: starting server on port 9734
> > Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> >
> > UNIX error 111 (ECONNREFUSED): Connection refused
> >
> > Automatically continuing.
> > To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> >
> > *** - THROW: there is no CATCHer for tag MAXIMA::RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER
> > Break 1 [1]>
> > [2]>
>
> I am trying this on a linux computer (SuSE 9.3), Maxima 5.9.2.
> On a different WindowsXP computer, same Maxima version, I get a similar error.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to start maxima in server mode? I only need to access
> the Maxima server on localhost.
> The message "Connection refused" sounds like a firewall problem. But
> > yacas --server 9734
> does work. The warning about UTF-8 encoding is not related.
> I want to test if it is possible to use Maxima from Mavscript. (This would
> allow to use Maxima commands in OpenOffice text documents).
>
> Thanks
>
> Adrian V.
>
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