Questions and Answers

This is a collection of questions and answers that was send-to/answered-by the MuPAD-Webmaster, MuPAD-Bugs or was discussed in the newsgroups 'sci.math.symbolic' or 'de.sci.mathematik'. Also refer to the technical information pages with hints for your operating system and to How to ... in MuPAD and factsheet.

xmupad cannot find/load my 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 the release of the XView libraries you use. This error sometimes occur on Linux systems and cannot be solved generally, because Linux development is very fast and there exist to many different library releases. Try the MuPAD Linux binaries bin.linux.2nd-chance.tar.gz that are compiled on a Linux system at the University of Köln.

MuPAD is written in ... ?

MuPAD is implemented in the programming language ANSI-C. In future versions we want to use C++.

Is MuPAD available for OS/2, Windows95, Windows3.11 ...?

Not by now. We are working on a Windows3.11 version - which will be called WinMuPAD - but there are still some problems with the frontend. We hope to present the first published version in summer '96. However, beta testers may get a first version (incomplete frontend) in winter '95.

Is MuPAD available for DECalpha ?

No, not by now. It is planed to port MuPAD for DECalpha, but there are some problems with the 64bit architecture and the (old) release of our arithmetic package. I fear it will not be available in 1995.

Will MuPAD be ported on AmigaOS ?

No. Too much work for too few users. I heared about good Mac emulators. Commercial: EMPLANT and AMAX-IV . Public domain: ShapeShifter.

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 is available then send an email to MuPAD-Webmaster@uni-paderborn.de and asked for it. We are only a small team but we will try our best.

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 ?

I am sorry to say that this is not possible by now. We are also interested in this feature, but the way from the pure text to a MuPAD online documentation is complicated and (escpacially for Macintosh systems) a little bit tricky. Too bad :-/. We are looking for an appropriate solution.

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

All .gz files have be copied in binary mode.

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

Please notice that the environment variable MuPAD_ROOT_PATH contains a small u.

I'm a registered user of MuPAD 1.2.1. Do I need a new license for 1.2.2 ?

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

How can I copy&paste in MuPAD ?

As far as I know, X11/Motif and VXiew uses different buffers for this. To enable copy&paste between an xterm and an XView applikation 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 and ^M has to be 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


Author: MuPAD-webmaster
Last updated: 05. Oct. 1995