From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 15:23:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA10291 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10286 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA09345 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:22:59 -0800 Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07771; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:21:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA20422; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:21:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Colman Reilly cc: Ivan Lima , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSd In-Reply-To: <9603141539.aa12848@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Colman Reilly wrote: > > I'm very interested in running Mathematica in my FreeBSD box and > someone in the newsgroup said that a few weeks ago someone anounced > success in running Mathematica for Linux under FreeBSD here in the mailing > list. So, if anyone has any information on that please let know. Thanks a > lot, > > That was me. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to clean up and > generalise my changes to the linux emulator, and last time I asked for info > on the best way to find out the hardware address of an interface I got one > non-useful reply and zero useful replies. I haven't had time to go digging > since. If you mail me I'll try and pull out the change I made and give you > instructions on how to apply it for your system, but I warn you that it's > ugly as sin. I don't know how many ohters are interested, but I sure am. I am right now being forced to boot dos and run Mathematica for the Diff Eq class, and this annoys me hugely, besides cutting me off from most of my tools. I asked the Wolfram folks, they said I could chagne from the dos version to the Linux version (student versions, that is) for a nominal charge, so I am extremely interested. I've been watching all this linux stuff fly by, because I don't care to play games, but getting me away from dos, well that's another story. I am going to start learning about the linux emulation. Does the mathematica version for Linux use the zmagic or ELF libs? (I have to know how to start this mess ... I will rtfm). ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.