======================================================================== Mathematica Packages for use with the book "Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Mathematica-based approach" INSTALLATION INFORMATION for Mathematica versions 2 and 3 ======================================================================== (C) Copyright Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1996-7. The Mathematica packages (collections of functions) are given here in four different forms: as archives for DOS (mathetic.exe), Macintosh (mathetic.sea) and Unix (mathetic.tar), and as separate files in the directory SOURCE. 1. Working from an archive a. Macintosh Make sure you have Macintosh PC Exchange is installed. Insert the floppy disc and drag the mathetic.sea icon onto your hard disc, then run it by double-clicking. A folder called "Mathetic" will be extracted. For Mathematica 2, move "Mathetic" inside the "Packages" folder of the main "Mathematica" folder. For version 3.0, move it into the "AddOns:Applications" folder of the Mathematica "3.0" folder. If you do not have Macintosh PC Exchange, you can copy each file using Apple File Exchange as explained in paragraph (2) below. b. DOS/Windows Copy mathetic.exe onto your hard disk. For version 2: inside the "packages" directory of Mathematica. For version 3: inside the "AddOns\Applications" directory. Then type "mathetic -d" to extract the new "mathetic" directory. c. Unix Installation of packages under Unix is complicated by the fact that in standard configuration extra packages need to be installed in a place where only the root user has write permission, that is the main Mathematica directory, which will be something like /usr/local/mathematica/math2.2.3 for version 2 (precise numbers may differ). You must ask your system administrator to install the code for you, in a new directory /usr/local/mathematica/math2.2.3/Packages/Mathetic (substituting the appropriate path for your system) or use the following work-around. For version 3, create a new directory AddOns/Applications/Mathetic inside the Mathematica 3.0 directory. Because the standard file search-path $Path in Mathematica includes "~", which is your home directory, you can get away with creating a directory Mathetic there and putting all the packages inside. Type "env" and look for "HOME=" if you don't know where your home is. Also, you can change the value of $Path in your own "init" file - see the Mathematica documentation. Working from the archive, ask your system administrator to load the file mathetic.tar into the Packages directory and extract the contents (using "tar -xvf mathetic.tar"). Or extract the contents into your home directory in the same way. 2. Installing from the SOURCE directory Copy all the ".m" files there into a new directory called "Mathetic" inside the directory "Packages" - or "AddOns/Applications" for version 3 - in the main Mathematica directory. Under Windows, this is usually called WNMATH22 or similar; in MacOS, the folder "Mathematica 2.2" or similar. Macintosh users without Macintosh PC Exchange should copy the files using Apple File Exchange, preferably with Text Translation enabled. See your manuals for more information. Unix systems usually do not allow ordinary users to write to the Mathematica directory, see the note in 1(c), above. 3. In case of difficulty, and to report bugs/provide feedback, please write to: The METRIC Project Mathematics Department Imperial College London SW7 2BZ United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503 Fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517 Email: metric-proj@ic.ac.uk World-Wide-Web: http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ --- Phillip Kent - 13 February 1997.