
	    The Maple V Release 5 Command Line Interface
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DESCRIPTION

  The command line interface of Maple V Release 5 allows you full access
  to the Maple mathematical engine through an efficient text-based interface. 
  It is particularly suited to solving large mathematical problems on
  slower computers or computers with limited memory.

  The following is the introduction to Maple V's Command Line Interface.

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   Input commands can be edited using special key sequences.  These
   commands are described in the Maple help page "?editing".


STARTING

  Windows 95 and Windows NT 
                Click on the "Command Line Maple" icon. Alternatively,
		you can enter "cmaple" in a DOS Window or in the Run box
                from the Start menu. 

  Windows 3.1   Click on the "Command Line Maple" icon or type "mapledos" 
                in a DOS window. 
 
  Macintosh     Click on the Command Line Maple icon.   
   
  UNIX          Type "maple" at the prompt.


QUITTING

  Type the command "quit" at a new Maple prompt. If Maple does not 
  exit, you are probably in the middle of entering a command.  Type a 
  semi-colon (;) at the Maple prompt, press the Enter key, then 
  issue the "quit" command again.
  Macintosh users should choose "Quit" from the "File" menu.


OPTIONS

  Command Line Maple version of Maple accepts the following options.
  (except for the Macintosh)

  -b   The -b (library) option tells Maple that the following argument should
       be used as the pathname of the directory which contains the Maple
       library.  This initializes the Maple variable `libname'.  By default,
       `libname' is initialized with the name of the directory in which
       the library was installed.

       More than one -b option can be specified.  In this case, the first -b
       option overrides the default `libname' setting, and subsequent -b
       options are appended to `libname', forming a Maple expression sequence
       of directory names.

  -c   The -c (execute command) option specifies a command that Maple is to
       execute on startup.  The command can be any valid Maple command, but 
       may not contain any blank characters.  Multiple -c options may be
       specified.  Commands specified by -c options and files specified by
       -i options are executed in the order they were specified after the 
       normal initialization files have been read.

  -I   The -I option invokes Maple in a special mode used to configure the 
       license manager. It cannot be used with other options.

  A complete list of available options can be found in the Maple help system.
  Type ?maple, or read the maple man page (UNIX) for more information.

  Standard read and save commands can be used in the Command Line version. 
  Macintosh users can locate these two commands in the "File" menu.  For 
  more information about these two commands, refer to the help pages, 
  ?read and ?save.
