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From: u01ams@nof.abdn.ac.uk (Al Slater)
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Subject: Re: Symbolic Math Package for NetBSD-1.0-i386 or Linux
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Date: 9 Feb 1995 09:34:36 GMT
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Tracy M Nelson (tnelson@fluorite.telesciences.com) wrote:
: Munagala V. S. Ramanath (ram@netcom.com) wrote:
: -- rsutton@trinity.eecs.berkeley.edu (Roy Sutton) writes:
: -- >Are there any PD symbolic math programs which have been ported
: -- >to NetBSD (or other flavors of BSD) or Linux?
: --     Check out the "calc" elisp package by Dave Gillespie that runs
: --     under GNU emacs. It can do simple symbolic calculations like
: --     polynomial arithmetic, solving simultaneous equations etc. but is

: There is also the jacal package which runs under Aubrey Jaffer's scm Scheme
: package.  Poke around on altdorf.ai.mit.edu, I think it's there somewhere.

src.doc.ic /gnu/jacal/
swiss-ftp.ai.mit.edu /pub/scm/
you should probably go for scm4e1.tar.gz and jacal<whatever>.tar.gz
If you are feeling enthusiastic, then you can also find scm4e2 kicking about
there; and there is an early version of Guile lurking on ftp.cygnus.com..

al