"Wrong usage" error message when trying to plot with plot3d or contour_plot
Subject: "Wrong usage" error message when trying to plot with plot3d or contour_plot
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 11:13:09 -0600
Thanks for the info, Andre. George, you'll have to install maxima-src
in order to get plot.lisp (and the rest of the source code).
best
Robert Dodier
On 5/28/11, andre maute <andre.maute at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 05/28/2011 09:52 AM, George wrote:
>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Robert Dodier<robert.dodier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can disable the error by searching for the error message
>>> in your copy of plot.lisp (somewhere in your Maxima installation)
>>> and changing merror to mtell. Then load("FOO/plot.lisp"); where FOO =
>>> the appropriate path,
>>> will load your modified copy.
>>> I will probably make the same change in the project source code;
>>> I'm pretty sure others have run into the same problem.
>> There is no such file in my system. I'm using the standard maxima
>> package that comes from the Debian repositories. --version shows
>
> The debian package maxima-src has the file plot.lisp
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/maxima-src
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/maxima-src/filelist
>
> Andre
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