Hi Sheldon,
for a couple of weeks now I am using Ubuntu and I did my
Maxima-5.17.1 installation via Debian unstable.
I noticed that in Debian the Maxima share packages are a
separate installation, just like the documentation.
So it is possible that build_info() answers 5.17.1 but
your Maxima share packages are outdated. It seems that
you have this or a similar problem.
Anyway, is there someone who is willing to write a friendly
e-mail to Debian's Maxima maintainer Camm Maguire to ask him
if maxima-share can be part of Maxima ?
Greetings
Volker van Nek
Sheldon Newhouse schrieb:
> Robert Dodier wrote:
>
>> On 3/14/09, Sheldon Newhouse <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Why is there an '&' produced in 'substring' ?
>>>
>>>
>> It's an artifact of the the way Maxima used to represent strings;
>> Maxima strings were Lisp symbols beginning with the & character.
>> That was changed some time ago (2007 I think).
>>
>> I think the bugs you found are fixed in recent versions.
>> Probably you just need to update your installation.
>> Or you could try to download just the stringproc files from CVS.
>> See: http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima/maxima/share/contrib/stringproc
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Robert Dodier
>> .
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks for your answer.
> Actually, I am running 5.17.1
> (%i214) build_info();
>
> Maxima version: 5.17.1
> Maxima build date: 16:56 3/12/2009
> host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> lisp-implementation-type: CMU Common Lisp
> lisp-implementation-version: 19d Fedora Extras release 3.fc7 (19D)
>
> I'll get the CVS string procedures.
>
> -sen
>
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