----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrej Vodopivec" <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>
To: "gord" <gayers07 at cogeco.ca>
Cc: <Maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] lisp error in wxmaxima
> Which versions of maxima and wxmaxima are you using. From the error it
> looks like you have the release candidate for maxima and version 0.7.3
> for wxmaxima. With the release candidate you should use wxmaxima 0.7.4
> - it is already available from http://sf.net/projects/wxmaxima .
>
> Andrej
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 8:59 PM, gord <gayers07 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> When I run the following line in wxmaxima I get the following error
>>
>>
>>
>> (%i1) save("tmp.save", a, b, c);
>>
>> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>>
>> Error in SYMBOL-NAME [or a callee]: "tmp.save" is not of type SYMBOL.
>>
>> Automatically continuing.
>>
>> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
>>
>> The line works fine in xmaxima and the command line maxima. Why do I get
>> this error?
>
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Andrej
Thank you very much for the speedy reply. Indeed installing the version of
wxmaxima solved the problem that I wrote about.
The version of wxmaxima that I had come with the package that I installed --
maxima-5.13.99rc1.exe
Thanks again!
Gord