University of California at Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Instructional & Electronics Support Group /share/b/pub/maple.help July 1, 2004 *********************************************************************** Mingus.eecs has been retired from service (July 1, 2004) and this software is no longer available. See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/clients.cgi?choice=13 for a list of other Instructional login servers. See http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/software.html for reference to software that is available on the other servers. *********************************************************************** Maple on the Instructional Systems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Overview -------- Maple V is an interactive Algebra System from Waterloo Maple. UC Berkeley has a campus agreement with the vendor. Maple can be purchased under the agreement from IS&T Software Distribution (238 Evans Hall, 643-9725, products@socrates.berkeley.edu, http://softdist.berkeley.edu/). Maple on EECS Instructional Systems ----------------------------------- Maple V Release 7 is installed on the /usr/sww for Sun SPARC systems. There are 10 "floating" licenses, that is, 10 concurrent users may be running this Maple. Instructional users can login to SPARC systems such as c199.eecs via 'ssh'; see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html for information about logging in from your home computer. These are the basic programs: maple - the Maple kernel, uses only a TTY (ASCII terminal) interface xmaple - opens an X window running Maple mint - produces a report about possible errors in a Maple source file How to Start Maple ------------------ To run "xmaple" from a workstation running X Windows: 1) Use "ssh" to login to c199.eecs over the net from another comuter. 2) Type "more /share/b/pub/XWindows.help" for information about how to set up X Windows 3) In the c199.eecs window, add Maple to your path on by typing set path = (/share/instsww/Apps/maple-7/bin $path); rehash 4) Type "xmaple". A window should pop up on your screen. You may also include the maple directory in the "set path" command in your .login file on for automatic execution when you log in. Maple Documentaion ------------------ You can add the Maple manual pages to your "man" search path: setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/share/instsww/Apps/maple-7/man See "man maple" and "man mint" for more information. See also /share/instsww/Apps/maple-v/examples - test input files /share/instsww/Apps/maple-v/tutotial - tutorial EECS Instructional & Electronics Support 386 & 377 Cory, 333 Soda inst@eecs.berkeley.edu