README
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  The Maxima service lets you interact with Maxima by means of a simple
  TCP/IP endpoint. It has a counter-part (Maxima phrasebook) that uses
  OpenMath and this product to interact with Maxima. Below you will find 
  references to more information.

  NOTE: THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS!

References
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  1. a Java Maxima Phrasebook
     http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/products/maxima/

  2. a Java OpenMath library
     http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/products/om/

  3. the OpenMath standard
     http://www.openmath.org


Pre-requisites
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The Maxima service has been developed using Maxima 5.9.1 -GCL-
and has been tested also to work with the version of Maxima 
Maxima 5.9.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (aka GCL)

It expects that the shell interface prompt of Maxima is of the form "(%i"
followed by a number and a ")". 

If you start the service, you can check whether it is working by using 
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[localhost:olga!102] telnet localhost 1239
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
2+3;

5

Connection closed by foreign host.
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If it does not return an answer, chances are that the maxima interface is using 
a different prompt. 


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Copyright information
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  Copyright (C) 2005 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.