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Many parts of VAXIMA/MAXIMA documents are written at MIT for the MACSYMA system which originally runs under a PDP-10 under ITS. However, under the UNIX environment some things are different. In particular, any MAXIMA command which takes a file name as argument is supplied with one by enclosing the UNIX file name in double quotes. Thus
BATCH("myprogram");
LOADFILE("/user/pwang/foo.lsp")$
are both correct.
Also commands and variables can be given in either uppercase or lowercase
and it does not matter.