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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, address@hidden wrote:
> Ok : my Texmacs version is winTexmacs 1.0.5
> and my Maxima is 5.9.3,
It seems you are using MS Windows.

WinTeXmacs was a port of TeXmacs-1.0.5 to Windows. It is very outdated: 
the current version is 1.0.6.9. It is not maintained for a very long time, 
since its original author abandoned it (and not a single member of the 
community of Windows users proposed to take over its maintainance). And 
even when it was new, many plugins (including the maxima plugin) were not 
fully ported to Windows (because it is nearly impossible to port sh 
scripts full of grep, sed etc. to a platform where none of these standard 
tools are available). This incomplete port of the TeXmacs-maxima interface 
also could not autodetect versions of maxima installed, and supported 
exactly one version, I already don't remember which one (it was so long 
ago). If I remember correctly, winTeXmacs has some text file somewhere 
(plugins.txt or something similar), and users have to edit it to make 
TeXmacs aware of external programs and paths to them. It also has the file 
texmacs-maxima-x.y.z.lisp somewhere (where x.y.z is the maxima version). A 
user can replace it by a more recent one from modern TeXmacs, and to edit 
maxima-init.scm so that this newer file is mentioned instead of the old 
one. By the way, the current version of maxima is 5.11.0.Many features of 
the TeXmacs interface will not work, they require a more recent 
maxima-input.scm, but, maybe, it can also be replaced.

I cannot check this, because I don't have access to any computer running 
MS Windows (and in any case, I know very little about this OS).

Maybe, a modern cygTeXmacs will be better, but I don't know how it 
interacts with external programs (does it need cygwin maxima or native 
one?). The best solution is, of course, to use a better OS.

Sorry I cannot be more helpful,
Andrey