New Maxima



On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:28:44AM -0600, Zach wrote:

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> Hmmm... back when I used Mathematica exclusively, I used it's command line
> interface from a terminal about as much as I used their GUI notebooks (SSH
> into campus for a few quick calculations).  It actually has (well had, 6
> years ago) ascii art plotting facilities.  Maybe we can get that in Maxima.

It is already there through Gnuplot. Setting terminal to dumb
accomplishes this, see 

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_8.html

-- 
Thor