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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Dear Andrea,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:51:04AM +0200, Andrea Gamba wrote:
> I am using texmacs 1.07 and the maple interface doesn't work, it just 
> freezes
> the program. Things were working instead with 1.06.4
> 
> I had this problem already many times and I tried to solve it along previous
> lines:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texmacs/+bug/73393
> 
> but it doesn't work, this time the program tm_maple_9.c is in its place.
> 
> In my .TeXmacs/bin/ I have my old tm_maple_9  tm_maple_9.sh which apparently
> don't work. If I delete them, new ones are not produced. 
> 
> A persistent problem with Ubuntu has been their use of dash instead of bash,
> but this is not the case here:
> 
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
> and choose <No> to set /bin/sh -> bash
> 
> does not solve the problem. 
> 
> Can somebody help? use of external programs like maple is one of the strong
> points of texmacs, but it is always so difficult to make it work... How 
> could I
> debug this problem?

This is a tricky point, because I do not have Maple myself.
I probably will have to look at the problem myself in order to fix it,
unless you are a hacker and manage to track down the problem...

Best wishes, Joris