The .mac files are ordinary text files that contain Maxima commands. They can be read using Maxima’s batch() or load() command or wxMaxima’s File/Batch File menu entry. You can be use .mac files for writing your own library of macros. But since they don’t contain enough structural information they cannot be read back as a wxMaxima session.

Example

Quadratic.mac defines a function and afterwards generates a plot with wxdraw2d(). Afterwards the contents of the file Quadratic.mac are printed and new defined function f() is evaluated.

Note

Although the file Quadratic.mac has an usual Maxima extension (.mac), it can only be read by wxMaxima, since the command wxdraw2d() is a wxMaxima-extension to Maxima.

Further reading

• [ Learn more about wxMaxima file formats ]