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From: Michael.Witbrock@CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Maple (Upgrades?)
Message-ID: <wbNjGmq00XNIMFUcc8@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 03:25:38 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hi, I just got Maple 4.2 (a symbolic math program) and stuck it on my
Amiga.
It's not bad (especially considering that it's free - Carnegie Mellon
has a site licence), but
the formula output is  not exactly tex standard, and the graphics are
ascii in a console window.

So, what I want to know is: is there an upgrade, and if not, I'd like to
make a suggestion:

make a little upgrade. add an Arexx port to it, and add an unformatted
output option. Then one could use external programs to dop the plotting,
and to make the formulae look nice, and it's be a lot more  Amigalike
(using IPC and multiple processes).

Michael