Hi, perhaps a small comment. Your line > loc:=2: inside the module to initiate the variable loc, which is local, will most likely not work. Modules do not safe such assignements. You can however use a start and stop routine to initialize teh module or to tydy up when the module is unloaded (eg by a >reset; command) See the help pages to modules for these details. ciao BF.

Hi *, there are plenty of ideas, I would like to add my personal view, that I don't miss a wiki in general, but that I would really apprciate a 'sandbox' where one could exhibit code snipets which are then actually computed, perhasp it could also provide online acces to maple help pages (many questions of users could so be directly answered by a link to such helppages). How this could work, have a loo at the axiom web page http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/FrontPage ciao BF.

Dear Allan! thanks for your post. I can imagine what amount of work that is, and I am not sure if I want to endure this, and if I really could do it. I know by now, that is essentially the java and the dynamical loader which cause the problems and I was hoping for a sort of a direct fix. I wonder what an 'unlimited' (in time) license does mean. Sure enough, if one would have the sources then another make, make install would do the trick. I see the legitimate interest and need of maple soft to sell new products, but at some times I would just be happy to be able to get an old version running _painlessly_ Even maple 10 does not run out of the box on a decent linux machine, like SuSE 10.1, and there is no Maple 11 around yet which the should run (??) I think that I will possibly just run an old retired computer without internet connection as a sort of old maple resort home thing for testing programs across platforms. Once more thatnk you very much for your post and desciption! ciao BF.