Hi Robert,
2012/3/9 Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
> On 3/8/12, Jens Axel S?gaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
>
> > using Lisp SBCL 1.0.47
>
> > Maxima has an option -s <port> that makes Maxima listen on a give port.
>
> Well, maxima -s makes Maxima the client, not the server.
>
Yes. In my snippet I use the Racket construct tcp-accept to setup a
listener,
and I did get the welcome message from Maxima.
> For a simple-minded Unixish server, try share/contrib/maxima-server.lisp.
> It only works with SBCL, but you're in luck!
> See the comment header of maxima-server.lisp for some info.
>
I'll take a look.
> Also there are command-line options to suppress output cruft.
> Try maxima --help and look for --quiet and --very-quiet.
>
Ooh! Thanks for pointing to --very-quiet. I missed them in the
documentation.
> As to the output format, after display2d:false, output is rendered in
> the so-called 1-d format, which might be easier to parse automatically.
> You can probably convince Maxima to return only S-expressions by
>
> :lisp (print #$<input expression goes here>$)
>
Great! This will be particular easy to parse in Scheme.
I just tried maxima-server w/ --very-quiet and it looks like Maxima
> fails to flush its output buffer. If you want to try that I can look into
> it.
>
Since my original email, I have actually written a working repl.
Something is puzzling me though. Using the -s option with Maxima on SBCL on
OS X, I can receive the output from Maxima via the socket on the given port.
Sending to Maxima via the socket doesn't work though. I have to send the
commands via the input port of the Maxima process.
Is this the intended way of sending commands to Maxima when using the -s
flag?
Maybe the cause of this is SBCL? The same (I think) problem is described
here:
http://osdir.com/ml/mathematics.maxima.general/2004-03/msg00020.html
--
Jens Axel S?gaard