In wxMaxima the following code generates an error.
(%i5) inchar:"hjkgf";
Improper value assignment to inchar -- an error. To debug this try debugmode(true);
This does work in xMaxima however.
Rich
(%i6) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.15.0
Maxima build date: 17:36 4/20/2008
host type: i686-pc-mingw32lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.8