[4206] in Consulting_FYI
IMPORTANT for consultants answering Maple questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Mon Oct 7 11:28:21 1991
To: cfyi@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 91 11:28:51 EDT
From: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Understandably, users often want to know how to save results in Maple
and print them out. Unfortunately, the limited info the consultants
have had in past has led them to suggest commands like "writeto" or
"appendto" as a method to achieve this.
Please *do not* suggest this. These commands can cause the user to lose
control of their Maple session. They are only useful in writing Maple
programs, not in interactive use.
The proper solution is to either use:
save varname, filename; # to save the contents of a sequence of variables
or:
open(file);
write(expression); # to save a sequence of expressions
close();
The olc stock answers have been update with this (and other) information.
Reid M. Pinchback
Faculty Liaison
Academic Computing Services
