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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:59:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   MuPAD ported to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.970417135347.21329R-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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Heya folks,

Check out the free (to educational types and scientific users) alternative
to Mathematica, MuPAD:

		http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/


I supplied these folks with a 2.2-RELEASE account so they could knock the
bugs out of it and get all the stuff compiled so it works.  Nate W. had to
help out with a couple of linker questions, but it seems to work pretty
well!  (I say this without knowing a lot about Mathematica, but what
little I tried was very cool.)  Proudly the README page on the various
distributions suggests our version now has fewer problems than the Linux
version. :-)

They give out binaries only, and ask people to register their copies.
(Presumably so they can talk about how many end-users they have so that
they can then request more funding to work on this.)  This thing screams
for a FreeBSD port, but I've been busy and I haven't had time [yet] to do
it.  This is just a heads-up to anyone that wants to play with it in the
meantime, and if someone gets around to it before I do a port would be
cool.  I'm sure for someone that knows what they're doing it's a real
simple job.

Happy trails,

Brian




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