maxima-init on Windows



On Dec. 13, Thomas La Bone wrote:
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I am trying to get Maxima to autoload files like "functs". As far as I
can figure I do this with the maxima-init.mac file. Where should this
file be placed on a Windows XP system?

Tom
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A discussion oriented to Windows users is in Sec. 5
of Ch. 1 of Maxima by Example.

If you have not redefined the Maxima string < maxima_userdir > in your
  startup file or work session, you can find where Maxima looks for the 
startup file as
  follows:
(%i1) maxima_userdir;
(%o1)           C:/Documents and Settings/Edwin Woollett/maxima

So if the folder doesn't exist, create it, and then create the file
maxima-init.mac in that folder.
By including a line like
disp("hello  ted")$
you can see (when you startup Maxima) that your start up file
has been read.

Ted Woollett
http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett/