Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:01:40 -0600 From: Rich Murphey <rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu Cc: creilly@maths.tcd.ie, ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSd Message-ID: <199603150501.XAA21679@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960314181704.19932A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:21:36 -0500 (EST))
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|From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> |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. Umm.. gee, I run the Linux distribution of Mathematica all the time on FreeBSD-current. I can assure you it works just fine, including the X front end and mathbook documentation browser. The emulator generates a few messages about missing ioctls which you can happily ignore, but other than that it works perfectly. |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). They are staticly linked zmagic executables. So you don't have to worry about finding the correct shared libraries at all. The only change I made was to set some environment variables at the head of each of the mathematica shell scrips that in turn invoke mathematica itself: RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf; export RESOLV_HOST_CONF XKEYSYMDB=/usr/site/math22/lib/X11/XKeysymDB; export XKEYSYMDB where /compat/linux/etc/host.conf can be created by: echo 'order bind,hosts' > /compat/linux/etc/host.conf Rich
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