You should be able to start Maple by typing maple. The Maple logo should appear almost immediately. After the Maple prompt > has appeared, Maple is ready to receive your input commands. You should see
|\^/| MAPLE V
._|\| |/|_. Copyright (c) 1981-1990 by the University of Waterloo.
\ MAPLE / All rights reserved. MAPLE is a registered trademark of
<____ ____> Waterloo Maple Software.
| Type ? for help.
>
Note, on workstations running X Windows, you can run a version of Maple which has a more sophisticated user interface called xmaple. Just type xmaple instead of maple. After a few seconds the Maple session window should appear which contains the Maple logo followed by the Maple prompt. You can now enter a command.
This is a grammatical requirement of the Maple language.
The semicolon tells Maple that this is the end of the input.
Type now followed by a return. Maple answers with
2/3
To refer to the latest result, one uses the double quote character ". Try it now
> ";
2/3
You can use the value of " in an expression as if it were a variable,
for example
> 2*"+1;
7/3
In order to save results, one assigns them to a variable, e.g.
> R := ";
R := 7/3
If you want to interrupt a calculation push the interrupt key once.
This is <Ctrl> C under Unix.
When the prompt character appears, Maple is ready for further input.
To exit Maple, you can type quit.
Note, under xmaple you can click on
the button to interrupt Maple and on
the
button to exit Maple.