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A Maxima program is usually first developed interactively and put into a file. This file may contain a sequence of any valid Maxima commands including function definitions. Comments in the file are enclosed in /* */. Such a file can be loaded into Maxima by
(c60) batch(``filename'');Note ``filename'' contains a user defined function. The command demo(``filename'') works like batch except that it pauses after each command contained in filaname until you press RETURN.
The Macsyma Reference Manual from Symbolics contains descriptions of many commands of Maxima . The document ``A Guide for AKCL and Maxima'' contains more information on our local implementation.