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A QUICK TOUR OF MAPLE
Copyright(c) 1991 by Waterloo Maple Software


Maple is an essential tool for anyone who needs to use or study
mathematics.  The demo on this disk will give you a glimpse of a few of
the over 2000 Maple functions and what they can do for you.  While this
Maple Demonstration runs only on an 80386 or 80486 based machine, all
the Maple commands appearing in this Tour are part of Maple on all other
platforms including the Macintosh and Unix systems.  Only the user
interface varies from platform to platform.

To run the demo on your computer, you will need an 80386 or 80486 based
personal computer with 2MB or more memory and a CGA, EGA, VGA, or
Hercules display adapter (for the graphics commands only).

Although the Maple demonstration can be run directly from the floppy
disk, it will perform much better (up to 50 times faster) if you copy it
into a subdirectory on your hard disk first.  This is because Maple
loads library files from the disk, and makes use of the disk to provide
virtual memory and to hold temporary files.  The Maple Demonstration
needs about 2MB of space on the disk for the program and files created
during execution.  Follow these steps to install Maple on your hard disk
and run the demonstration:

    1. Place the Maple Demonstration diskette in disk drive A.

    2. Create a directory for Maple on your hard disk with a
       command like:

       MKDIR \MAPLE

    3. Make the directory the current directory:

       CD \MAPLE

    4. Copy the contents of the diskette into the current
       directory:

       COPY A:*.*

    5. Run the Maple demonstration:

       MAPLE

If you do want to run Maple from the floppy (if you don't have enough
space on your hard disk, for example), follow these steps instead:

    1. Place the Maple Demonstration diskette in disk drive A.

    2. Make that disk drive the current drive with the command:

       A:

    3. Start the Maple Demonstration by issuing the command:

       MAPLE

Maple will take about 5 seconds to load from a hard disk, or about 30
seconds if you are running the Demonstration from the floppy disk.  When
you first start the Maple Demonstration, a copyright message and
ordering information window will appear on your screen.

After you have read the copyright notice, you can press one of two keys
to begin.  If you press Enter, the demo will automatically type in the
examples for you; all you have to do is press Enter to execute each one.

If you press the Space bar instead, the demo will run just like a full
Maple session; you type the commands you want to execute.  This assumes
you have some familiarity with Maple on other platforms.

In either case, you will be dealing with a real subset of Maple.  This
is NOT a recorded demo.  The time it takes to solve each problem is the
same as a full version of Maple would require to solve the same problem
on your machine.

Note that the Demonstration version of Maple contains only those
portions of Maple necessary to run the Maple commands used in this Tour.
Feel free to experiment by editing the parameters within commands, and
by using the commands in combinations other than those used in the Tour.
Do not be surprised if some things you try will not work.  Maple is a
large, complex, and powerful system.  This small sample is designed to
give you an opportunity to try only some of its capabilities.  This
demonstration version will not save files, DOS command line redirection
and pipes are disabled, the MAPLEDIT program is not included, and only
about 3% of the Maple Library and 3 help files have been included.  This
version will also not manipulate polynomials of degree greater than 20,
and will display a message box to which you must respond whenever it
performs storage reclamation.  If you try something that the
demonstration version cannot do, a message will be displayed indicating
that the particular feature you invoked is not included.

Maple is ready to accept input when the cursor (_) is blinking next to
the prompt (>).  You can then type the first Maple command described in
this Tour.

Whenever you finish typing a Maple command, type a semicolon (;) before
pressing the Enter key.  The semicolon tells Maple that the command is
complete, whereas the Enter key tells Maple to accept your input.  The
distinction arises when you wish to type something that does not fit on
a single line; you would then press Enter at the end of each line, and a
semicolon only at the end of the last line.  If you forget to type a
semicolon before you press Enter, you can type the semicolon on the next
line and press Enter again.

If you make an error while typing a line and you have not yet pressed
the Enter key, you can correct the error using the Left, Right, Home,
End, BackSpace, Delete, and Insert keys, just as you would if you were
using a text editor or word processor.

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