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- From: mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Mma NCALGEBRA announcement
- Message-ID: <36262@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 05:07:13 GMT
- Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu
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- Organization: Mathematics @ UCSD
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-
- I noticed some interest in a noncommutative algebra package in this
- group. We have been working on such a program for some time.
- It is availiable through anonymous ftp from osiris.ucsd.edu
- (see below for more information). The files are ASCII. The file
- NCDOCUMENT contains documentation.
-
- If you use the program, let us know so that we can send you updates,etc.
-
- Comments and bug reports are welcome.
-
- Mark Stankus
- send e-mail to ncalg@osiris.ucsd.edu
-
-
-
- (****************************************************************************)
-
-
- NCALGEBRA
-
- Version 0.1
-
-
-
- (****************************************************************************)
-
- Thanks you for your interest in NCAlgebra. This message contains the
- information necessary for you to use anonymous ftp to transfer the
- files from our site to yours. The ONLY thing which you have to
- do to get the NCAlgebra package is to follow the following sample
- terminal session.
-
- NCAlgebra is at osiris.ucsd.edu, in the pub/ncalg directory. Below
- is a record of an actually ftp session. What the user types is
- underlined. Quoted expressions describe what should be typed.
- (e.g., where you see "Any thing will do.", you may type anything
- you want). Ignore all timing data.
-
- Note: If you are unfamiliar with ftp, then note that after the
- command "mget *", the computer will respond with the prompt
- "mget CEEP?". You should hit the return key to indicate that
- you do indeed want to get the file CEEP. The computer will then
- prompt you for the next file and you must hit the return key
- again. Even though there are about thirty files, the whole
- process should take less than five minutes.
-
-
- BELOW IS A SAMPLE SESSION. IF YOU FOLLOW IT, THEN YOU WILL BE
- ABLE TO GET A COPY OF THE NCALGEBRA PACKAGE.
-
- YOU CAN HAVE YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER "GURU" FOLLOW THE BELOW
- INSTRUCTIONS AND INSTALL NCALGEBRA AS AN OFFICIAL MATHEMATICA
- PACKAGE. ONCE THIS IS DONE, EVERYONE USING THE COMPUTER MAY
- USE NCALGEBRA.
-
-
-
- % ftp 128.54.18.1
- -------------------
-
- Connected to 128.54.18.1.
-
- 220 osiris FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready.
-
-
- Name (128.54.18.1:dhurst): anonymous
- ---------
-
- 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
-
- Password: "Any thing will do."
- --------------------
-
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
-
- ftp> cd pub/ncalg
- -------------
-
- 250 CWD command successful.
-
- ftp> mget *
- ------
-
- mget CEEP? "You just hit the <Return> key."
- --------------------------------
-
- 200 PORT command successful.
-
- 150 ASCII data connection for CEEP (128.54.18.8,3053) (453 bytes).
-
- 226 ASCII Transfer complete.
-
- local: CEEP remote: CEEP
-
- 474 bytes received in 0.0043 seconds (1.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
-
- mget CONTENTS? "Just keep on hitting that <Return> key until ... "
- ---------------------------------------------------
- ftp>
-
- ftp> bye
- ---
- 221 Goodbye.
-
-
-
- We have included a file called "ListofFilesAndSizes" in the directory
- so that you can compare filenames and filesizes by Kilobyte blocks.
-
- This can be accomplished by typing the following UNIX commands,
-
- ls -s -1 > MyFiles; diff MyFiles ListofFilesAndSizes
-
- If what you have is identical to what we have, there should be NO
- output from the diff command. If there is a difference, then try
- ftp again. If the difference is "small", talk to a local expert.
-
- We are interested in knowing who has NCAlgebra, so that
- we are able to inform them that new versions of the code
- are available, etc. PLEASE send us a email message so
- that we know that you are using the program.
-
- The documentation for NCAlgebra is contained in the file
- NCDOCUMENT. Printing out this file to a printer is the best
- first step.
-
- We can email NCAlgebra, if necessary.
-
- Email any questions, comments or requests to
-
-
- ncalg@osiris.ucsd.edu
-
-
-
-
- --
- mstankus
- mstankus@oba
-