Standard maxima installation under Linux?

Well, it worked on Linux.  Everything maxima-related seems to be
running just fine.  (Threading issues have come up, but that's not
even remotely related to maxima.)

Thank you everyone for your feedback.

On 2/14/06, James Hart <jamesahart79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/06, Andrey G. Grozin <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, James Hart wrote:
> > > So, do all questions that interrupt evaluation in Maxima have at least
> > > one line ending in a question mark?  (All the ones I've seen have, but
> > > I haven't been comprehensive by any stretch of the imagination.)
> > Oh, NO!! Please, not THIS approach again.
> That's why I asked, instead of doing it.  I wasn't sure if Maxima
> allowed ? to be used in other places.  Since it can, I'd better not.:)
>
> >
> > TeXmacs, wxMaxima (and maybe other front-ends) assign some strings to
> > *prompt-prefix* and *prompt-suffix*. If these strings contain some
> > non-printable chars (ctrl-chars, for example), then they can unambuguously
> > identify prompts (including questions). No need to parse maxima output (in
> > addition to being tedious, this approach is very unreliable: what if a
> > user writes some string ending in a question mark, or the string "(%i123)"
> > ?
> This looks a whole lot more promising.  I'll see how it does.
>
> >
> > Andrey
> >
>