How do you recover from a lisp stack overflow?

Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> I've been playing with recursive functions lately, and if I enter too 
> large an input, what happens is that I get:
>
> *** - Lisp stack overflow. RESET
> [1]>
>
> What should I do now?  Is there any way of getting back into maxima, 
> or do I just have to kill the process (I'm using linux) and restart 
> maxima fom scratch?
>
You might try either (to-maxima) or (cl-user::run).

I don't know, however, if this will be enough to restart maxima nicely, 
since the stack has overflowed.  This really depends on what your 
underlying Lisp does when it encounters a stack overflow.

Ray