Advanced Programming Guide

192 • Chapter 4: Input and OutputOther differences include the use of a single command, filepos, toperform the work of two C functions, ftell and fseek. You can do thisin Maple because functions can take a variable number of arguments.In general, if you have C or C++ programming experience, you shouldhave little trouble using the Maple I/O library.4.9 ConclusionThis chapter presented the details of importing and exporting data andcode to and from Maple. While this book teaches fundamental conceptsand provides a pedagogical introduction to topics, the Maple help systemprovides the details on each command and feature. It explains such thingsas the options and syntax of Maple commands and serves as a resourcefor use of the Maple interface. For more information on a command, enter?command_name at the Maple prompt.