On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>
> Bill Page wrote:
>>
>> Martin,
>>
>> If you are using a non-clisp version of Fricas with Sage you might
>> want to try a different way of disabling readline in order to solve
>> the synchronization problem. In 'axiom.py' you will see:
>
> <snip>
>
>> is necessary to disable readline in gcl. I do not know if this will
>> work for sbcl but you could try it.
>>
>
> Bill, only gcl and clisp include readline.  sbcl, ecl and Closure
> CL do not include readline at all.  In case of gcl readline should
> be active only if you directly run AXIOMsys, otherwise (when using
> sman) FriCAS startup code should disable readline.
>
> Bottom line: readline problems are clisp specific.  I am afraid
> that sman may be the guilty party -- trying to run AXIOMsys
> directly should clarify situation (of course if running sman directly
> and using gcl based FriCAS the command to disable readline is
> useful).
>

Yes I think you are right. I forgot to mention to Martin that *in
addition* to disabling readline, when I used to run gcl with the Axiom
interface in Sage I also changed the line 'command = ...' to run
AXIOMsys directly. So from what you say, Martin should be able to get
sbcl (and ecl) to work just by making this change. As I recall,
another minor change to 'axiom.py' is necessary because starting
AXIOMsys directly creates only one (1) -> prompt while running it from
sman (via 'axiom ...') creates two initial prompts. This can cause
initial synchronization problems.

But of course one reason for wanting to call sman is to get Axiom
graphics and hyperdoc - at least in in the 'axiom.console()' mode.
Even though in the current implementation of 'fricas-1.0.3.p0.spkg'
the X support must be disabled for compatibility with the version of
clisp that is included with Sage, one can in principle obtain this by
compiling Fricas outside of Sage.

Regards,
Bill Page.

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