On 6/2/09, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> What is needed, I think, is a command-line option that allows the user
> to set the init file at run-time. This is presently lacking.
Agreed. Can someone look into that?
> To run multiple parallel instances of maxima which call gnuplot, one can
> create a tmp directory in the present directory and set
> maxima_tempdir in the first line of maxima.
It seems like Maxima should be calling mkstemp or whatever
to create a temporary file name; otherwise different instances
of Maxima can clobber each other's output files.
I suppose mkstemp is not a CL function but maybe we can
come up with an acceptable approximation.
All the best
Robert Dodier