General information about how to get and install MuPAD are given in Installation of MuPAD.

This prerelease of WinMuPAD is not available by now!!! We hope to publish a first version in spring/summer 1996. Please refer to News & Infos for an further anounncements.

Installation on Windows

In order to run WinMuPAD on your PC you must have Windows(tm) version 3.x or later installed on your PC and you should also have at least 10 MB of free harddisk space. WinMuPAD is a so-called 32-bit application. In order to run it under Windows 3.x you must install the WIN32S extension which comes with the MuPAD distribution disks. Users of Windows 95(tm) do not need to install this extension.

Installation of Win32s

Insert the WIN32S Disk in your floppy drive and run "setup.exe" under Windows(tm) 3.xx. Follow the setup instructions and restart Windows(tm) afterwards.

Installation of WinMuPAD

WinMuPAD comes on two disks. These disks contain the self-extracting archives winmup1.exe and winmup2.exe. Before extracting the files from these archives you have to create the MuPAD root directory, i.e. the directory where all MuPAD files are to be installed. In the following example, MuPAD will be installed on drive c: in the dirctory \winmupad Of course you may choose a different drive and directory name. Under MS-DOS just type
        mkdir c:\winmupad
Then copy the archives to the directory created above, e.g. by typing
        copy a:\winmup1.exe c:\winmupad
        copy a:\winmup2.exe c:\winmupad
Of course you must insert the appropriate disks before copying the files. After that, change to the MuPAD directory:
        c:
        cd \winmupad
and extract the archive files by typing
        winmup1 /PATH
        winmup2 /PATH
This extracts all files and creates a number of subdirectories. The directory "bin" (i.e. "c:\winmupad\bin") contains the MuPAD executable "mupad.exe". Under Windows install this file as the MuPAD application by using the Program Manager(tm). Refer to the Windows manual on how to create new Windows applications. Now it should be possible to start MuPAD by double-clicking on its icon.

Trouble shooting

If you encounter any problems during installation, carefully check if you have carried out all steps described above in the correct order. Remember: WinMuPAD will *not* run under Windows 3.x unless you have installed the WIN32S extension and you *must* restart Windows after installing this extension. If you still have problems, please report your problem via email to MuPAD-bugs@uni-paderborn.de.

Author: MuPAD-webmaster
Last updated: 02. jan. 1996