Maple Worksheets are files with the extension mws which can be read only by Maple. If you want to see or play with a Maple worksheet, AND YOU ARE IN MA-3030 or MA-3056 (the Math/Stats Micro Labs), just click on the worksheet you want to see and Maple should launch automatically. If it doesn't, or if you are not in the Math/Stats Lab, you should save the worksheet to your computer account, start Maple by typing xmaple at the computer prompt, and file open to read it in.

Suppose you have just issued the command plot(sin(x),x=-2*Pi..2*Pi) to Maple and want to include this graph in a TeX file. Here's what you do. Make up a name for the file which will contain this graph, say "fish01.ps". Now enter plotsetup(ps,plotoutput="fish01.ps") at the Maple prompt and execute the plot command again. This time, instead of the plot appearing in your worksheet, the PosTScripT file "fish01.ps" will be created. Now you have captured the graph of sin(x) in a PostScript file which you can view with ghostview. To learn how to include "fish01.ps" in a TeX file called "myreport.tex", for example, click here.