Questions and Answers

How can I print the MuPAD manual ?

You cannot, but the MuPAD reference manual is published by Birkhäuser (Release 1.1) and Wiley (Release 1.2.2). Please refer to our bibliography.

xmupad has problems with dynamic libraries

Make these libraries and all directories in their pathnames readable and executable for every MuPAD user. If they are not found, please refer to the Installation-Guide. Maybe on your system an UNIX environment variable like LD_LIBRARY_PATH or SHLIB_PATH has to be defined.

xmupad core-dumps whereas mupad runs

There are problems with some releases of the XView libraries. This error sometimes occurs on Linux systems and cannot be solved generally, because Linux development is very fast and there exist too many different library releases. Refer to a mirror site of sunsite and get a new release of the XView libraries.

MuPAD is written in ... ?

MuPAD is implemented in the programming language ANSI-C. Newer parts of the code are written in C++.

Is MuPAD available for Windows95, Windows3.11 ...?

We are working on a Windows95/Windows3.11 version - which will be called WinMuPAD. It is planned to distribute beta releases in April 1996. The full version will be available in autumn 1996.

Is MuPAD available for OS/2 ?

With the new Win32s interface WinMuPAD should run with OS/2. By now, we have no OS/2 system to check this.

Is MuPAD available for DECalpha ?

Not by now. Main parts of the kernel are ported and an alpha release of a terminal version is running on a DECalpha 'OSF1 V2.1 250 alpha'. A complete version will not be available until we change out users interfaces from XView to Motif.

Will MuPAD be ported on Amiga ?

An alpha release is available (12.Feb.1996) for AmigaOS 2.04 or higher and also for Amiga/NetBSD 1.1_alpha2. Both versions was ported by a friendly MuPAD user (Daniel Balster). The alpha release is a developer version and is distributed in order to find out if enough users are interested in it.

Further support of Amiga versions depends on user requests. If you are interested in a full-featured Amiga version, then please send an email to Daniel Balster (dbalster@uni-paderborn.de) and to the MuPAD-Webmaster@uni-paderborn.de.

The alpha release is only a terminal version that does not support the MuPAD hypertext manual neither the MuPAD graphics capabilities.

If you need/want graphics and hypertext: I heared about good Mac emulators that are in use by some MuPAD users. For example, Public domain: ShapeShifter. Commercial: EMPLANT and AMAX-IV.

Is MuPAD available for my operating system XXX ?

Please refer to our OS-FAQ. If XXX is not listed there and if it is a commonly used UNIX system on which XView and X11/Motif are available then send an email to MuPAD-Webmaster@uni-paderborn.de and ask for it. There is much work, but we will try our best.

Is there a MuPAD mailing list ?

No. Also MuPAD-talk is closed because of too much work. Please use the discussion forum to discuss MuPAD topics.

Where to discuss MuPAD topics ?

Please use the Usenet newsgroups sci.math.symbolic and de.sci.mathematik for your discussions. These groups are also read by the MuPAD developers.

How can I write my own hypertext documents for MuPAD ?

MuPAD hypertext documents are wirtten in LaTeX using special MuPAD styles that supports hypertext functions. By now this is a little bit tricky, but in the future we want to support users in writing their own papers and book as MuAPD hypertext documents.

gunzip says "invalid compressed data--format ..."

Using ftp all .gz files have to be copied in binary mode.

Starting MuPAD I get "Sorry, can't open help system! ..."

The MuPAD environment variable are not aset correctly. Please also notice that the environment variable MuPAD_ROOT_PATH contains a lowercase u. Detailed information are given in the installation guide.

I'm a registered user of MuPAD 1.x. Do I need a new license for 1.y ?

No. You can use your old license key. Also refer to our license-FAQ for further information.

Installing MuPAD on a file server, do I need a license for every single user ?

No. Using our web license form, set 'machine type' according to your operating system of select a multi plattform/campus license. Then set 'number of hosts' to the avergage number of hosts on which MuPAD is used. That's enough by now.

How can I 'copy & paste' in MuPAD ?

As far as I know, X11/Motif and VXiew use different buffers for this. To enable copy&paste between an xterm and an XView application like MuPAD put the following the following lines in your .Xdefaults file and reload it.
XTerm*VT100*Translations: #override \n\
L8: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0, PRIMARY)\n\
L6: start-extend() select-end(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0, PRIMARY)\n\
Mod1F3: string("^U`xv_get_sel`^M")
      
^U respectivly ^M is ONE character! It works fine on my system configuration: Sun, X11R5/R6, fvwm, xmupad.

Winfried Truemper sent me a solution that might be better for Linux systems:

      Mod1F3: string(0x15) string("`xv_get_sel`") string(0x0d)\n
      

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Author: MuPAD-webmaster
Last updated: 08. Dec. 1996