[Maxima] reading a string from the keyboard

[Jussi Eloranta]

Hi,

I have a simple question. I want to read a string from the keyboard, 
which may contain spaces etc.

Previously, I used the following:

readline(?\*standard\-input\*)

but this does not seem to work anymore with the new wxmaxima (it works 
fine if I run maxima in a terminal window). I suspect that there is some 
standard way of doing this? If I use readonly(), then I get:

1 2
Incorrect syntax: 2 is not an infix operator

where I entered a string "1 2".

Help?



Jussi Eloranta
Cal State Northridge