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[MIT ONLY] Mathematica 3.0 is installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alexp@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 15 19:40:12 1997
From: alexp@MIT.EDU
To: msug@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:34:19 EDT
[MIT ONLY]
Mathematica 3.0 is now running on Athena SGIs, Suns and Linux-Athena Linux
machines. To run it do:
add math
followed by
math -ver 3.0 (text mode version) or
mathematica -ver 3.0 (for the X Windows - Notebook interface version)
There is extensive online documentation and examples, and a couple of
man pages (in the math_v3.0 locker). This release creates a "dot"
directory, .Mathematica, in your home directory, containing various
user-specific configuration files. These are platform-specific and we
have needed to make modifications to allow for running in a
multi-platform environment. Hence you will see things like
.Mathematica.sun4m_54, .Mathematica.i386_linux2 or
.Mathematica.sgi_53. Fortunately these do not seem to use much disk
space.
The Linux binary is ELF only, not a.out, so your Linux kernel will need to
support the former.
Due to technical issues this release will not run on NetBSD machines in
ELF emulation mode if the NetBSD kernel has been built with both COMPAT_LINUX
and COMPAT_SVR4 enabled; it might run if COMPAT_LINUX is enabled but not
COMPAT_SVR4, but we are not sure yet.
Please be aware that we only have 10 licenses so it may not be uncommon to
find all of them in use. We are looking into the possibility of getting
more but nothing is definite yet.
This release will become the default this Summer, at which time we will
need to remove Mathematica 2.2 (for licensing reasons).
Notebooks created with Mathematica 2.x will be converted to 3.0 format,
after which they will not be usable in 2.2, so if you will need to work
in both releases for a while be sure to keep backup copies.
If you run into any installation-related problems please report them directly
to me.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Services
Software Acquisition Coordinator
