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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:16537 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1656 comp.os.linux.help:78972 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!strath-cs!st-and!Aberdeen!u01ams From: u01ams@nof.abdn.ac.uk (Al Slater) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Symbolic Math Package for NetBSD-1.0-i386 or Linux Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.help Date: 9 Feb 1995 09:34:36 GMT Organization: Home For Oddball Languages Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3hcnjc$aou@nof.abdn.ac.uk> References: <ramD34L4v.C2M@netcom.com> <3gjpi8$jo8@onyx.telesciences.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: emps.abdn.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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