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- From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,news.answers
- Subject: [comp.sys.amiga.applications] Answers about Science/School/UNIX software
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.202141.19106@qucis.queensu.ca>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:21:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qucis.1992Dec15.202141.19106
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- Archive-name: amiga/science-faq
- Last-modified: 1992/12/15
- Version: 2.5
-
- Compiled-by: Richard Akerman (akerman@qucis.queensu.ca)
-
- v2.5 available by anonymous FTP from wuarchive:
- /systems/amiga/incoming/text/AmigaSciSchool-2.5.readme
-
- This document is a summary of info I have on hand about Science/School/UNIX
- software. It's a combination of things I have found out myself (I use most
- of these programs), information posted on USENET newsgroups (mostly
- uncredited, sorry), and responses I got to questions I send to commercial
- product representatives. I have tried to make the information herein as
- detailed and correct as possible; please email me with any corrections or
- comments.
-
- Programs covered:
- 1. MAPLE V
- 2. X-windows
- TeX
- 3a. AmigaTeX
- 3b. PasTeX 1.3
- 3c. DVIprint
- 3d. dvi2lj
- 3e. fig
- 3f. ARexx macros for TeX
- 4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26
- 4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19
- 5. UNIX commands for the Amiga [every one you ever wanted]
- 5a. man
- 5b. diff
- 5c. compress, uncompress, zcat
- 5d. tar
- 5e. tarsplit
- 5f. ispell 3.3LJR
- 5g. nroff
- 5h. ixemul.library
- 6. GNU plot 3.2
- 7. FTP sites
- Appendix A. Programs on grind
- Appendix B. Programs on wuarchive
-
-
- NOTE: some of these files/archives are very large. Often they contain
- source or other files you may not need. If you are sending the files to
- yourself over the phone lines, or other slow medium for which you may have
- to pay, use the appropriate archiver on your UNIX system beforehand to
- delete all unneeded files in the archive. The most common archiving format
- is .lzh and .lha, use the lha program for these. See Appendix A for UNIX
- versions of archiving programs (lha, zoo, unzip). See note in Appendix B
- about Amiga archiving programs.
-
- There is a nice review of science software in the March 1992 (#48) _.info_,
- a magazine whose demise is much lamented.
-
- 1. MAPLE V =================================================================
-
- MAPLE V, a commercial "Mathematica"-like program is available for the
- Amiga.
-
- There is a review of Maple V in the above mentioned _.info_ article,
- pp. 35-36.
-
- There is a more recent review of Maple V in the January 1993 (Vol. 8, #1)
- _Amazing Computing_, pp. 69-71.
-
- I received a very detailed response to my questions from Maplesoft
- (specifically, from Joyce Brennan, Communications Manager). Here it is, with
- several screens of additional promotional information removed at the end,
- and some of the other descriptive portions summarized.
-
- From: jbrennan@maplesoft.on.ca (Joyce Brennan)
- Subject: Amiga Maple V Posting - correction
-
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
-
- |\^/| Waterloo Maple Software
- ._|\| |/|_. 160 Columbia St. West
- \ MAPLE / Waterloo, Ontario
- <____ ____> CANADA N2L 3L3
- | Tel: (519) 747-2373 info@maplesoft.on.ca
- Fax: (519) 747-5284
-
- > 2. system requirements
-
- Systems Compatibility
- - Supports the following configurations, with and without
- coprocessors: Commodore Amiga 1000, 2000, 2500 and 3000
- - Requires Amiga DOS, version 2.04 or higher
-
- Memory Requirements
- - 2 MB RAM and 8 MB disk storage
-
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
-
- For Canadian Customers:
- A single-user copy is now available for only Can $695 for educational
- and government institutions (if the user can provide proof of their
- affiliation), and Can $935 for all others. Shipping and handling
- is added to this price. For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.
-
- For U.S. Customers:
- A single-user copy is now available for only US $595 for educational
- and government institutions (if the user can provide proof of their
- affiliation), and US $795 for all others. Shipping and handling
- is added to this price. For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.
-
- For Customers outside North America:
- Please contact Waterloo Maple Software at the address or phone number
- [above], or by sending an e-mail message to info@maplesoft.on.ca
- and we would be happy to put you in touch with your local distributor.
-
- For Academic Degree-granting Institutions:
- Site licenses are required in order to run Maple on a network.
- For academic institutions, a site license is calculated for each
- type of machine, and the price for site licenses depends on the
- number and type of machines running Maple.
-
- Site licenses are calculated, as follows:
-
- Number Price of
- of Users Multi-User License
-
- 1 single-user license
- 2 - 4 2 x single-user license
- 5 - 9 3 x single-user license
- 10 - 16 4 x single-user license
- 17 - 25 5 x single-user license
- 26 - 36 6 x single-user license
- 37 - 49 7 x single-user license
- 50 - 64 8 x single-user license
- 65 - 81 9 x single-user license
- 82 - 100 10 x single-user license
- 101- 121 11 x single-user license
- Unlimited 12 x single-user license
-
- This special site license option is available for degree-granting
- educational institutions only. For these multi-user licenses, you
- will also need to sign a Software License Agreement, which we will
- mail/FAX to you as soon as you arrange an order with us.
-
- Although the above site license calculation does not apply to
- non-academic sites, volume discounts and special multi-user licenses
- are also available.
-
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
-
- Maple V Features
- - Full implementation of Maple including interactive 3-D
- graphics with PostScript and IFF format output
- - Takes advantage of Amiga specific standards for session editing
- - ARexx port which supports all Maple V functions
- - Over 2,000 library functions
-
- When you purchase Maple, the software package includes detailed
- installation instructions, a tutorial introduction and two manuals
- (Language Reference & Library Reference manuals). On-site workshops
- can also be arranged.
-
- *******************************************************************
- Free Upgrade to Maple V Release 2 for Amiga
- *******************************************************************
- Those customers who purchase Maple V for the Amiga from Waterloo Maple
- Software now will be entitled to a free upgrade to Maple V Release 2
- which is expected to be available for this platform by the end of the
- first quarter of 1993.
- *******************************************************************
- Those customers who purchased Amiga Maple V from Waterloo Maple
- Software any time AFTER June 1, 1992, will be entitled to a free
- upgrade to Maple V Release 2, and will be mailed this automatically
- as soon as it becomes available for distribution.
- *******************************************************************
-
- [There was a LOT of information about Maple V Release 2, and Maple in
- general, here's a very brief summary, as this is a FAQ, not an advertisement
-
- MAPLE V Release 2
- * adds 700 new functions for total of over 2500
- * highly programmable C & Pascal-based language has been further refined
- * "work with standard math notation and print publication quality results"
- * "stunning new interactive graphics, including animation for time-variant
- analysis"
- * combine text, graphics and math using easy worksheet interface
- * will produce LaTeX formatted output
- * will produce FORTRAN and C code]
-
- 2. X-windows ===============================================================
-
- A commercial version of X-windows is available from GfxBase.
-
- For more information contact
- Dale Luck: dale@ntg.com
-
- What follows is the response to my emailed questions:
-
- From: dale@boing.ntg.com (Dale Luck)
- Subject: X11 info
-
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
-
- GfxBase, Inc.
- 1881 Ellwell Dr.
- Milpitas, CA 95036
- USA
-
- Phone: (408) 262-1469
- FAX: (408) 262-8276
-
- > 2. system requirements
-
- Minimum 1M RAM, 7M disk, recommended 3M RAM, 14M harddisk
-
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
-
- Price: [US] $395, Eduprice: [US] $316. Site licenses available.
-
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
-
- Please send a postal address and we can send you our
- printed literature.
- Also available, XView 2.0, Motif, Xtk programmers libraries.
-
- 3a. AmigaTeX ================================================================
-
- AmigaTeX is a commercial program available from Radical Eye. Comes with
- TeX, LaTeX, MetaFont, Previewer, and Post 1.7 (for handling PostScript).
-
- 8 program disks + 6 font disks. Hard disk installer program so you can
- install a minimum or full system.
-
- It has a special font loading system so you don't need all of them on your
- hard disk; it will request the font disks as needed.
-
- For more information contact the author:
- Tomas Rokicki: rokicki@cs.stanford.edu
-
- What follows is the author's response to my emailed questions:
-
- From: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: AmigaTeX
-
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
-
- Radical Eye Software
- P.O. Box 2081
- Stanford, CA 94309
- USA
-
- Phone: (415) 322 6442
- FAX: (415) 327 3329
- BBS: (415) 327 2346
-
- > 2. system requirements
-
- At least two floppies or a hard disk, and at least 512K of RAM.
- Three megabytes of RAM is recommended.
-
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
-
- The main package is [US] $200; printer drivers are [US] $100 per set (organized
- according to printer resolution). Site licensing and group discounts
- are available; write for information. There is no special educational
- pricing.
-
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
-
- A free demo disk and product literature is available by sending Radical Eye
- a FAX or a letter with your name and address.
-
- 3b. PasTeX 1.3 ==============================================================
-
- There is also a Public Domain TeX called PasTeX. Look on wuarchive,
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3/
-
- (see Appendix B for file listing)
-
- The files are full disks compressed with Zoom, from Fish #682
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff682/Zoom.lzh 89055 bytes
-
- 3c. DVIprint ================================================================
-
- If you have AmigaTeX but no printer drivers, you can try using DVIprint
- from the PasTeX distribution. It works remarkably well, just make a
- tex:config dir and put DVIprint.printers in it.
-
- Host athene.uni-paderborn.de
-
- Location: /pcsoft/amiga/tex/pastex
- FILE -rw-r--r-- 57858 May 26 00:00 dviprint.lha
-
- 3d. dvi2lj ==================================================================
-
- If you have a LaserJet you may want to use dvi2lj instead of DVIprint,
- it's on amiga.physik.unizh.ch (aminet) and mirrors
-
- /amiga/text/tex/dvi2lj.lha 109185 bytes
- [thanks to barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) for this info]
-
- 3e. fig =====================================================================
-
- Also for TeX you may want the fig package, for structured drawing.
- On wuarchive,
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/fig.zom 319110 bytes
-
- Uncompress with Zoom from Fish #682.
-
- 3f. ARexx macros for TeX ===================================================
-
- I have uploaded ARexx macro things for TeXify and ToError for AmigaTex to
- wuarchive, in /systems/amiga/incoming/utils
-
- Ed-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for Ed
- Emacs-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for GNU emacs
-
- There are also TeXify ARexx macro things for CED on wuarchive,
- /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/texify-1.12.lzh
-
- 4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26 ===================================================
-
- The author of GNU emacs and various GNU UNIX command ports (ls, mv, grep, ...)
- is David Gay. You'll need a couple MB of hard disk and RAM.
-
- They are available from amiga.physik and mirrors.
-
- Also, wuarchive
-
- /systems/amiga/incoming/utils/
-
- a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA
- (full emacs, also ls, grep, sort)
-
- (See Appendix A&B)
-
- Contact David Gay: dgay@di.epfl.ch
-
- 4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19 ================================================
-
- Along with GNU emacs you'll probably want the fifo.library from Fish 588.
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff588/FifoLib.lzh 40222 bytes
-
- Also you may want to replace the UNIX sh with csh 5.19 from Fish 624. I needed
- to do this to use a TeX-shell in GNUemacs TeX-mode. (NOTE: Using ARexx is
- better than using the TeX-shell anyway.)
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff624/Csh.lzh 415097 bytes
-
- 5. UNIX commands ===========================================================
-
- Most UNIX commands are available:
-
- GNUEMACS:c
- etags grep
- ls rmdir
- sort
- MRMan
- MRMan
- UNIX:fileutils-3.3/c
- chmod d = udir - does some dir thing, no man
- dd - convert a file while copying it
- ln (rmdir)
- mkdir mv
- rm touch
- udir = d v = vdir - does a list thing, no man
- vdir = v (ls)
- UNIX:textutils-1.3/c
- cat cmp - compare two files
- comm - compare two sorted files line by line
- csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines
- cut - remove sections from each line of files
- expand - convert tabs to spaces
- fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
- head
- nl - number lines of files
- paste - merge lines of files
- pr - convert text files for printing
- split
- sum
- tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
- tail tr - translate or delete characters
- ujoin unexpand
- uniq wc
- UNIX:grep-1.6
- egrep (grep)
- UNIX:diff-1.15
- diff
- UNIX:compress-4.0
- compress
- uncompress
- zcat
- UNIX:UnixUtils/c
- gnutar
- uncompressbatch
- unshar uudecode
- uuencode uusplit
- UNIX:TarSplit
- tarsplit
- EDITORS:ispell-3.3LJR
- ispell
-
- See Appendix A and Appendix B for locations
-
- 5a. man ======================================================================
-
- a UNIX-like "man" called MRMan is available on Fish #281
-
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f2/ff281/MRMan.lzh 46332 bytes
-
- This has zcat included with it. It supports a MANPATH, your choice of "more"
- like utility. You can use it to access all of the man pages for the UNIX
- textutils and fileutils. The ones to put in the MANPATH are the pre-formatted
- /cat directories (usually).
-
- You may want to modify the code so that it will recognize *.1 as a valid man
- file. You can use NewZAP, from Fish #574
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff574/NewZAP.lzh 29756 bytes
-
- 5b. diff ====================================================================
-
- UNIX diff is available from
-
- ftp.uu.net:/systems/amiga/dillon/diff115.lzh
-
- Also see Appendix A, B.
-
- 5c. compress, uncompress, zcat ============================================
-
- compress is available in the compress-4.0 distribution. Note that to get
- uncompress and zcat you simply copy compress
-
- copy compress uncompress
- copy compress zcat
-
- The program operates according to the name it is invoked with.
-
- 5d. tar ====================================================================
-
- UNIX tar is available on Fish #445
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f4/ff445/Tar.lzh 104399 bytes
- It may give you a total system crash when extracting from an archive unless
- you use NewZAP (Fish #574) to apply the patch in Tar/patch01/src/bin.patch1
- A patched version is also available on wuarchive,
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive/tar-patched.lzh 124633 bytes
- [patching by (Alan Bair) abair@parsons.sps.mot.com]
-
- 5e. tarsplit ===============================================================
-
- For extracting from .tar archives only you can use tarsplit.
- (See Appendix A&B)
-
- 5f. ispell 3.3LJR ==========================================================
-
- ispell 3.3 LJR is available from wuarchive,
-
- /systems/amiga/incoming/utils/ispell-3.3LJR.lha 550746 bytes
-
- The hash file is about 500k, HD highly recommended. The distribution now
- includes GUIspell 1.1, it also has .el files for GNUemacs and Rexx files for
- many editors.
-
- If you already have ispell, the .el files for emacs are also available on
- wuarachive, /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/ispell.lha
-
- 5g. nroff ==================================================================
-
- There is nroff available for the Amiga to process man files. It doesn't
- handle many attributes.
-
- wuarchive: /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/nroffamiga.lha 56822 bytes
-
- 5h. ixemul.library =========================================================
-
- nroff requires v 39+ of ixemul.library, from wuarchive
-
- /systems/amiga/incoming/misc/ixemul.lzh 78590 bytes
-
- 6. GNU plot 3.2 ============================================================
-
- GNU plot 3.2 is on Fish disk 701
- ux1: /amiga/fish/f7/ff701/GNUPlot.lzh 560824 bytes
-
- 7. FTP sites ===============================================================
-
- Major US Amiga (+some Fish) site: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
- Other US Amiga (+some Fish) site: grind.isca.uiowa.edu
- Major US Fish site: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]
- Major Euro Amiga site: amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80]
- mirrored on wuarchive /mirrors4
-
-
- Appendix A. Programs on grind =============================================
-
- amiga/utils/
- total 109
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 14418 Oct 27 1992 UU.LHA - uuencode, uudecode
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 186 Oct 27 1992 UU.readme
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 1182 Dec 03 1991 UnixUtils.Readme
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 178639 Nov 24 1991 UnixUtils.lzh
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 496099 Oct 18 1992 amiga-fileutils-3.3.LHA
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 143291 Oct 16 1992 amiga-grep-1.6.LHA
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 584149 Oct 18 1992 amiga-textutils-1.3.LHA
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 32368 Oct 20 1992 compress-4.0.lzh
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 35664 Dec 03 1992 diff115.lzh
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 550746 Nov 24 1992 ispell-3.3LJR.lha
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 2451 Nov 24 1992 ispell-3.3LJR.readme
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 15444 Nov 03 1992 tarsplit.lha
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 725 Nov 03 1992 tarsplit.readme
-
- unix/arc-progs/
- total 15
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 37738 Jan 24 1992 Lharc.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 237535 Jan 24 1992 Zoo210.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 1165 Apr 15 1992 arc-5.21.readme
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 97925 Apr 15 1992 arc-5.21.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 121707 Jan 24 1992 arc.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 10579 Jan 24 1992 boo.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 7256 Mar 11 1992 dmscheck.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 88091 Mar 11 1992 lha-0.04.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 81707 Apr 08 1992 lha-1.00.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 32763 Dec 01 1992 unarj230.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 116165 Jul 16 1991 unzip41.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 245065 Apr 03 1992 unzip42.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 304017 Sep 18 1992 unzip50.tar.Z
- -rwxr-xr-x+ 190819 Jan 31 1992 zip10.tar.Z
-
-
- Appendix B. Programs on wuarchive =========================================
-
- Amiga (de-)archiving programs can be found in
- /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils:
- total 5155
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 667542 Dec 18 1990 tex-3.1.lzh
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 20155 Jan 5 1992 texify-1.12.lzh
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 319110 Mar 17 1992 fig.zom
- drwxrwxr-x 4 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 pastex-1.3
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 103403 Jun 29 00:03 dvipsamiga.lha
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2038 Jun 29 00:03 dvipsamiga.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 56822 Jun 29 00:03 nroffamiga.lha
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2313 Jun 29 00:03 nroffamiga.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 10428 Jul 7 20:30 ispell.lha
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2442 Jul 7 20:30 ispell.readme
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3:
- total 3150
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 1027 Oct 9 1990 extras.readme
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 543209 Oct 11 1990 extras.zoo
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 458766 Oct 5 1991 disk-4.zom
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 1074 Oct 5 1991 README
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 702054 Oct 5 1991 disk-5.zom
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 339078 Oct 5 1991 disk-2.zom
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 681546 Oct 5 1991 disk-3.zom
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 456046 Oct 5 1991 disk-1.zom
- drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 metafont-2.7
- drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 previewfonts
-
- /systems/amiga/utilities/disks/backup:
- total 192
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 191648 Feb 3 1992 gnutar.lzh
-
- /systems/amiga/incoming/utils:
- total 10785
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 969340 Oct 15 21:32 a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2402 Oct 15 21:33 a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2963672 Oct 15 21:52 a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.LHA
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2401 Oct 15 21:52 a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 496099 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-fileutils-3.3.LHA
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1330 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-fileutils-3.3.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 143291 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-grep-1.6.LHA
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1325 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-grep-1.6.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 584149 Oct 15 21:57 amiga-textutils-1.3.LHA
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1330 Oct 15 21:57 amiga-textutils-1.3.readme
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 550746 Nov 20 11:20 ispell-3.3LJR.lha
- -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2451 Nov 20 11:20 ispell-3.3LJR.readme
-
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