Newbie question: Howto remove only first element from a list

Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
> <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
>>  Not sure what's going on.  I'm doing this with the CVS version using
>> maxima-local, instead of installing maxima somewhere.
> 
> The index is constructed by a Perl program which looks for
> regular expressions and notes the file offsets --- my guess is
> that Perl is treating the r.e.'s differently.
> The boxes I use for development have Perl 5.8.1 & 5.8.5 respectively.

FWIW, I looked at the index file.  The index file says:

("rest" . ("maxima.info-4" 171002 259 "Functions and Variables for Lists"))

Offset 171002 in maxima.info-4 for me is the entry:

  -- Function: rest (<expr>)

I think we want the offset to point at:

  -- Function: rest (<expr>, <n>)
  -- Function: rest (<expr>)

Don't know why the index file is pointing to the second line.  I don't 
grok perl at all.

Ray