I can confirm these bugs with the below-listed Maxima version. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Maxima version: 5.23.2
Maxima build date: 17:9 1/17/2011
Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
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[Maxima] "describe" broken in 5.23.2
Stefano Ferri ferriste at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 15:13:02 CST 2011
Dear list,
I've just downloaded Maxima 5.23.2 for Windows, and I've notice d that the
useful command "describe" is broken.
Here's what I get:
(%i1) describe(integrate);
WARNING: Empty documentation index. Describe command will not work!
No exact match found for topic `integrate'.
Try `?? integrate' (inexact match) instead.
(%o1) false
I still have't tryed the linux version. This is a really annoying issue...
The command ?? is broken, too.
Stefano