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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
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Subject: Re: Maple (Upgrades?)
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Date: 15 Dec 90 14:55:05 GMT
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hugh@kink.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:

>Aha, it sounds like you haven't read the Amiga specific documentation.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(or even the standard documentation in paper or online form).  You
>have to set the plotdevice to whatever output device you want.	The
>best one for Amiga screen output is "amigahi" for a high res screen.
>for printer output or a PostScript previewer, write it as postscript
>and you'll get much better resolution.

Aha! I bought my copy of Maple (for on-campus use only) through my university.
It came with no Amiga-specific documentation at all. It came on 4 disks
in compressed form with a decompressor program on one of the disks. It 
took me a while to figure out (trial and error) how to decode the disks
in the first place.
I saw your note and tried setting plotdevice to amigahi... it worked! I
wonder what else might be Amiga-specific and how one might obtain the
documentation. (It took my university (Illinois) a while to figure out
there was an Amiga version in the first place 
(I'm the only one on campus to ever request one)).

Thanks,
Richard
gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu
ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

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

>Maple V should be available for the Amiga by spring.

>>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,

>What do you mean unformatted?  What's the problem with the ASCII,
>LaTeX and FORTRAN equation output options?

>>and to make the formulae look nice, and it's be a lot more  Amigalike
>>(using IPC and multiple processes).

>The port of Maple V is being modelled after the X11 version.

>>Michael

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