[Maxima] more problems with readline ...

[Jussi Eloranta]

Hi,

readline(true);   (or readline(false)) works correctly in maxima under 
both linux and windows (and probably macs as well).
It reads a string from the standard input (one could also do :lisp(setq 
$fd *standard-input*) to do it right but the true/false trick works as 
well).
I then ran into problems using this with xmaxima and wxmaxima under 
linux/gcl where it would just ignore the input and return an empty string.

Next, I tried wxmaxima on a windows box (I seem to recall that the 
standard windows package uses gcl?)  and surprise readline() worked just 
fine there - no problems whatsoever. OK, then I went back to my Linux 
box and recompiled maxima using clisp. The readline() and wxmaxima work 
just fine
(with the clisp maxima). So it appears that gcl under Linux is doing 
some tricks here. Any ideas?


Jussi Eloranta
Cal State Northridge