Restoring, Saving and Ending Sessions During the course of a Maple session, you may have entered in a number of useful expressions and routines that you would like to re-use in future. To avoid retyping them the next time you use Maple, you can save that work in a file by using the save command. For example, the following command saves everything you created during the session in a file named "filename.m": > save `filename.m`; When you specify a filename with the extension ".m", Maple saves your work in "Maple internal format". This is the most useful format for Maple when you restore your work later on. You restore the information with the command: > read `filename.m`; To save only specific items, or to save and restore information in a human-readable format, read the sections in the First Leaves document entitled "Saving the state of your Maple session" and "Recording results in files in human-readable format". Once you have saved your work, you can terminate your Maple session with any of the commands quit, done, or stop.