OK, thanks for the info.
Here is my problem.
I downloaded the source maxima-5.9.3.tar.gz.
I had
load("specfun");
in my .maxima-init file. Of course, it dumped me out, so I thought the
new version was buggy and went back to the old one.
I agree that some placeholder would be good.
-Cheers,
-sen
I On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 8/2/06, sen1 at math.msu.edu <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> What about specfunctions (which was mssing in 5.9.3)?
>
> The specfun package is superseded by the orthopoly package.
> I'm sorry if that wasn't clear before. Probably it would help
> to leave a placeholder that says "You want orthopoly instead" or something.
>
> orthopoly is a rewrite of specfun. All of the specfun package was cut out.
> ? ortho or ? orthogonal shows info about the orthopoly package.
>
> HTH
> Robert Dodier
>
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