Miscellaneous

FriCAS start options

By default FriCAS is started by calling the fricas script that is accessible from your $PATH. You can change with what options the script is called by changing the corresponding lines at the end of your installed fricaskernel.py. You find there a few other ways to start FriCAS, in particular, you can start a terminal that exposes the FriCAS session that runs behind your Jupyter notebook or you can start FriCAS without opening the HyperDoc window.

Output to files

Note that jFriCAS never directly writes to (most of) the streams in FriCAS. Rather it replaces them by its own streams to collect the output for the Jupyter notebook. That means that the command

)set output algebra foo.txt
sin x + exp x

will not work as expected. The output still appears inside the Jupyter notebook. No output is written to foo.txt. See webspad.lisp to figure out which streams are actually used in jFriCAS.