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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: "Ernest C. Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSD? Date: 26 May 1997 16:43:10 GMT Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc69f3$7f7e3c00$27366d81@masscomp> References: <5m1luj$eq9$1@gail.ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: masscomp.utmb.edu X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41630 Yes, I have had mma running under FreeBSD for a few years now, currently running FreeBSD2.2.2 and Mathematica3.0. I use the Linux a.out form, and generally ignore the cumbersome notebook front end, opting for emacs-editing and X-based graphics. There are a few things that are useful to have in your math startup script, and I believe all of these are described in the FreeBSD handbook (sorry, but I can't get to my own files at the moment). Check out http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook268.html#593 for more info, or feel free to email me (use ernie@lamprey.utmb.edu) with any other questions. Note that after you have it all set up correctly, whenever you start mma there will be ~3 error messages about something not implemented. You can ignore these. Ernest Hymel ehymel@utmb.edu Metameme 7 <vaccime@ripco.com> wrote in article <5m1luj$eq9$1@gail.ripco.com>... > Does anyone have any experience with running Mathematica under > FreeBSD? The software is available in Linux ELF/a.out form; > does the Linux emulation support suffice for this? > > > -- > vaccime@ripco.com > >