




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