[2704] in Software_Announce
maxima on Athena updated to 5.13.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Nov 14 17:02:53 2007
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:53:44 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated the maxima Open Source symbolic math application to 5.13.0.
To run it:
add maxima
rmaxima
From my message to users:
Maxima on Athena has been updated to 5.13.0 and is now the default. To run the
older 5.9.1 release now:
add maxima
maxima -ver 5.9.1
We are now building maxima with sbcl, as that was the only readily accessible
LISP that runs on both Sun and Linux and is suitable for running maxima.
Invoking maxima with the "rmaxima" command instead of "maxima" enables
command-line editing.
geomview has been configured to allow manipulation of 3d images, in addition
to gnuplot for plotting.
The xmaxima GUI interface, incorporating live examples and online
documentation, and an emacs invocation, with two emacs modes, are
also available. To run them after adding the maxima locker:
xmaxima
maximaemacs
The emacs modes can be invoked from emacs (launched through maximaemacs) by:
M-x maxima (for maxima mode)
M-x maxima-mode (for maxima-mode mode)
In maxima-mode, C-c C-p starts maxima. and C-c C-k stops it.
Alex
