[Texmacs-dev] Hacks with external interfaces

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi,

I am trying to hack an interface with Maple 5.4 and
I have two main problems:

1) When asking for help on a command, Maple runs some home-made "more" program,
   which completely confuses the IO-mechanism. Does there exist a way to make
   Maple think that TeXmacs is a terminal with 10000 columns and 1000000 lines?

2) When the input contains a syntax error, Maple enters a home-made readline
   mechanism with special control characters, asking you to correct
   the previous line. Again, this confuses the IO-mechanism. Is there a way to
   disable the use of special control characters, for instance by pretending
   being a terminal which cannot handle them?

Thanks, Joris