On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 21:25 -0500, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Robert> Looking at the script, it looks like it doesn't distinguish
> Robert> arguments meant for Maxima from arguments meant for Lisp.
> Robert> Maybe Lisp arguments could be preceded by -X or something,
> Robert> so for -nositeinit it would be -Xnositeinit and it would
> Robert> be handled differently. Just a thought.
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of -X "-nositeinit -this-option
> -that-option". Yes, the user would have to quote it, but then maxima
> wouldn't have to know about if the option for Lisp implementation X is
> --nositeinit or -nositeinit or +nositeint, or whatever.
I would recommend using a syntax that is often used in Linux:
maxima -l cmucl -u 5.10.0 -- -nositeinit -this-option -that-option
any options after "--" would be passed to lisp.
Regards,
Jaime