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1. Binaries for Windows 3 1 ackages Sources docs and tests 3 After reading the CD ROM files the REDUCE files will be unpacked and put into the approriate places in the REDUCE homedir tree If you are reinstalling the software to a non empty directory please allow overwriting of files when prompted 4 As final step a group called REDUCE 3 8 of Windows icons is generated which allows the user to start REDUCE by double clicking the icon 5 To test the installation double click the REDUCE icon This will open a window where the mes sage loading REDUCE 3 8 15 Apr 2004 appears followed by an input prompt Enter bye This will end the first session The installation is now complete 3 4 The shortcuts in the REDUCE group The structure of the shortcuts in the automatically generated REDUCE group is as follows An example with Windows user interface Command Line sreduce lisp psl win32 psl bpslw f reduce lisp psl win32 red reduce img td 12000000 or an example for batch processing reading from infile Command Line sreduce lisp psl win32 psl bpsl f reduce lisp psl win32 red reduce img td 12000000 i infile o outfile If you want to modify existing or add new shortcuts please use the Settings gt Taskbar gt StartMenu gt Advanced mechanism as described in the Windows docu mentation The number following the td parameter represents the total memory size in bytes as a decimal numb
2. call e g util tstpckge int for invoking the integrator test A log is then written to the directory LOG e g as log int rlg 3 Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated 7 2 Rebuilding REDUCE FASL Files S Because of its organization into independently compilable packages and the packges into modules the current REDUCE system is fairly easy to maintain If any source updates are necessary they can be incorporated into the appropriate files using a convenient editor Once any system source file has been updated it is necessary to rebuild compile the equivalent fast loading modules in order to utilize the changes The mkpckge script can be used to update a packages fasl files belonging to a package The parameter is the name of the package to be compiled the path and the suffix red is appended automatically Examples util mkpckge int util mkpckge assist 7 3 Maintaining REDUCE The util directory includes a number of scripts that are useful for the ongoing maintenance of RE DUCE Most of these are only of interest to the system maintainer and several have been described earlier in this guide However for completeness they are all documented in this section All are asso ciated with a file with a bat extension and some have one with a dat extension They are as follows buildpsl This is used to rebuild the complete REDUCE fast loading fasl file system from scratch It f
3. reduce rand org This should be done so that you can be advised of any changes made to the system Furthermore re turning the registration form is a requirement for local reproduction of the REDUCE documentation Date Contact Person Organization Address Telephone Network Address Indicate network Internet BITNET EARN UUCP etc REDUCE Supplier Konrad Zuse Zentrum Berlin Computer Description Vendor _____ Ss Moodle _d COp erating System Please indicate the test time as printed by the final call of showtime in the output from the test de scribed in the section Testing REDUCE of the REDUCE Installation Guide Also give the memory size used real or virtual if known called Region below and the total amount of real memory available on the machine if you know Time _____ _ d2RRegion SS MMacchine Memory Please also write on the back of this form any comments you may have about the installation procedure and system documentation and performance If you would like to be listed in a published registry of REDUCE system holders please check here L
4. D 14195 Berlin Dahlem Fed Rep of Germany Electronic Mail neun ZIB de Facsimile 49 30 84185 125 The distributed version of REDUCE takes its execution size from the command line The minimum size of installed memory for executing REDUCE is 32 Megabytes but for more advanced calculations more memory is necessary The complete set of binaries requires approximately 14 million bytes of disk space for one of the Intel based operating systems For the DEC Alpha binaries approximately 25 million bytes are needed As usual the REDUCE systems runs better the more physical memory is installed up to 128 MBytes can be used on 32 bit systems Under all operating systems there is a small binary executable the PSL loader which loads the RE DUCE kernel preserved in a binary file called the image file with suffix IMG The Intel architecture based versions of REDUCE use the 32 bit mode of this processor Under Windows 95 98 2000 XP or Windows NT REDUCE operates in the native modes of these systems Both versions use an individual loader which loads an individual image file Under Windows NT and Windows 95 98 2000 XP the program BPSLW EXE organizes at the same time the interactive window support which is very similar to that offered by the MS Windows version The load modules sources and scripts are compatible among the Intel based systems only the executa bles and image files are individual for the operating system and are kept in separ
5. a folder which contains documents not compressed mostly in TEX form docextra a folder which contains documents not compressed which are already pro cessed and ready for printing or browsing resp others a folder which contains software which may be useful for browsing documents or displaying graphics This software is NOT part of REDUCE in any form It is put on the CD ROM in case the network connection of your system is not powerful enough to fetch large data files Please consult the README file in this folder setup containing setup exe and scripts disk unzip and some utilities 3 Installing REDUCE 3 1 Preparations You have to select a directory name for the root of the REDUCE file tree We recommend you either select a new directory or empty in advance the directory for the REDUCE installation as interferences of the new packages with any older code might cause failures Do not use a directory with too long a path name the directory path will be included in several command line parameters and with a long name you may run into problems with the limited DOS command line length Also it is not recommendable to include special characters in the REDUCE file tree name even though the operating system might allow this If the reduce directory itself is a subdirectory you must create the upper part of the path before manually if it does not yet exist 3 2 Setting environment variable REDUCE uses five environment variables at runtime
6. 3 8 group e personal REDUCE with ftp access 1 use anonymous ftp to fetch the file pat ches b from the server ftp zib de It can be found in pub reduce patches or pub reduce patches alphant Use binary mode for the transfer 2 copy this file to the directory Lisp ps1 MACHINES red 3 run the script ut il mk reduce in order to build a new binary or doubleclick the MKRE DUCE icon in the REDUCE 3 8 group e personal REDUCE no ftp access 1 copy patches red to the directory packages support 2 run the script util mkpatch this script translates the patch file into Standard LISP and builds a new binary When REDUCE is built with a non compiled version of patches some programs may need more execution time however in most cases this effect is negligible The ftp server mentioned above contains other items that might be useful for your REDUCE installation Please consult the readme file for actual information 9 Obtaining recent information on REDUCE Recent information about REDUCE and new or updated REDUCE packages can be obtained from a World Wide Web REDUCE server with URL http www reduce algebra com In addition to general information about REDUCE this server has pointers to the module library the demonstration versions examples of REDUCE programming For distribution of REDUCE news and for discussing REDUCE topics of general interest there is an electronic mail forum Every user of REDUCE is invited to p
7. REDUCE Installation Guide for Personal Computers Winfried Neun Konrad Zuse Zentrum Berlin 2004 REDUCE Installation Guide for Personal Computers Version 3 8 by Winfried Neun ZIB D 14195 Berlin Dahlem Federal Republic of Germany August 2004 Abstract This document describes operating procedures for installing REDUCE specific to personal computers running Microsoft Windows XP 2000 NT and MS Windows 95 MS Windows 98 A MS DOS OS 2 or Windows 3 1 version is NOT supported Copyright 2005 Konrad Zuse Zentrum Berlin All rights reserved Registered system holders may reproduce all or any part of this publication for internal purposes pro vided that the source of the material is clearly acknowledged and the copyright notice is retained Contents 1 Introduction 2 Description of the Distribution CD ROM 3 Installing REDUCE 3 1 Preparations 3 2 Setting environment variable 3 3 Automatic Installation using Setup 3 4 The shortcuts in the REDUCE group 3 5 Mixing Operating Systems 4 Printing Documents 5 Testing REDUCE 6 Running REDUCE Programs 7 Utilities Peele TESS aa erat hii de ae BNP a tie 7 2 Rebuilding REDUCE FASL Files 7 3 Maintaining REDUCE 8 Patches for REDUCE 9 Obtaining recent information on REDUCE 10 Program Registration 11 Inquiries and Reporting of Errors 10 10 1 Introduction This
8. alled MiKTeX in the others directory of the installation CD ROM In order to browse files with a suffix pdf you need ADOBE R s Acrobat R reader If you did not yet install the Acrobat Reader you can download it from http www adobe com 5 Testing REDUCE To test the REDUCE installation enter REDUCE in Sreduce packages alg alg tst or use the script util tstpckge alg which generates a session log in the directory LOG This requires about 1 second on a 133 MHz Pentium system under Windows 95 Other programs for testing the REDUCE system assembly may also be found in the packages folders included in reduce packages 6 Running REDUCE Programs Prototypical instructions for using the 386 implementation of REDUCE are available in the directory DOC as the file OPER TEX You should edit this to reflect your site specific implementation Site independent instructions for the use of REDUCE are given in the REDUCE User s Manual More collections of examples can be found in the packages folder in files ith the tst suffix 7 Utilities In the subdirectory util there are several scripts available They can all be executed with all supporting systems Under DOS they will switch to Windows automatically if either the file reduce bin psll ere is missing or if set rbase WIN had been set before 7 1 Tests The script UTIL TSTPCKGE be used to execute one of the tests in the packages subdirectories Simply
9. articipate To register for this forum or for further information please send email to reduce rand org 10 Program Registration After installing REDUCE please register the product ONLINE Registration through the Web page http www reduce algebra comis preferred Otherwise please fill out the accompanying registration form and send to Dr Anthony C Hearn RAND 1700 Main Street Santa Monica CA 90407 2138 Telephone 310 393 0411 Facsimile 310 393 4818 Email reduce rand org This should be done so that you can be advised direct of any changes which are made to the sys tem Furthermore the copyright statement on the REDUCE documents requires such registration as a requirement for their local distribution The test time requested on the registration form is the time printed by the final call of showtime in the output from the test described in the section Testing REDUCE 11 Inquiries and Reporting of Errors We would appreciate hearing about bugs you encounter or questions you may have regarding the assem bly or the operation of the system Suspected errors should be accompanied by the relevant output and a copy of the input source Corrections for documented problems or other improvements to the system are also welcomed REDUCE 3 8 Registration Form After installing REDUCE please fill out this form and send to Anthony C Hearn RAND 1700 Main Street P O Box 2138 Santa Monica CA 90407 2138 U S A Electronic Mail
10. ate subdirectories Throughout this document Intel processors mean the 32 bit processors of the Intel x86 family namely i386 SX and DX optionally with 1387 coprocessor i486 and Pentium or compatibles e g AMD processors Intel Itanium Processors are currently not supported by this implementation MS MS DOS Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation OS 386 is a product name reserved by ERGO Computing Inc OS 2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines On the DEC Alpha under Windows NT the 64 bit mode is supported There are two levels of REDUCE available e professional version e personal version Compared to the professional version the following items are missing from the personal version e compiler e rebuild scripts sources This guide can be used for both versions Differences are marked by notes prof for features which are available in the professional version only 2 Description of the Distribution CD ROM The material is distributed as a set of files on a CD ROM In order to make the installation process easy to handle one REDUCE version is kept in one compressed file The CD ROM contain files win32 zip REDUCE version for Windows NT Windows 95 98 2000 or XP alphant zip REDUCE version for DEC Alpha Windows NT packages zip REDUCE sources of packages In the personal version there is a miniset of source files needed for the installation of the system doc
11. er If your computer is equipped with large real memory you may consider arranging for an icon with huge memory usage The maximum for the td value is 128Mb on 32 bit systems BPSLW is equipped with several icons you can select one of them by pushing the button Change Icon After pushing the REDUCE icon appears in the group 3 5 Mixing Operating Systems On an Intel processor based machine you can install the binaries for Windows 95 98 2000 XP and Win dows NT in one file tree without problems Simply run the installation script under each operating system separately with the same root Please note that img files which are produced during the in stallation are not compatible between Windows 95 98 2000 and Windows NT If you want to use both operation systems on the same machine or access the software from a server disk please copy the specific image files and update the items in the REDUCE 3 8 folder in the taskbar 4 Printing Documents The distributed documents can be found in the DOC folder in the REDUCE file tree or in printable form in the DOCEXTRA folder on the CD ROM The documents with suffix TXT may be printed using standard DOS utilities They are paginated and formatted with standard ASCII control characters A maximum of sixty print lines per page are assumed The left margin offset must be supplied by the user The documents with suffix TEX need the I4TEX program system for printing You can find a IAIEX implementation c
12. guide describes the REDUCE version 3 8 distribution CD ROM and procedures for installing testing and maintaining REDUCE on a personal computer with an Intel processor or Digital Equipment Compaq Alpha processor based computer with DOS Version 3 3 or higher or any version of MS Windows Please note This version will NOT run on any 8086 8088 80186 or 80286 based machines no matter how much memory they have This remark is mostly for historical reasons The Intel 32 bit versions of REDUCE have a lot of features in common Therefore in the following we denote by Windows XP 2000 95 98 one of the operating systems Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP or Windows 2000 There are a few special features in the Windows NT version The following names are used for the operating systems in the REDUCE file tree and on the distribution disks Operating system system name binary archive file MS Windows NT Intel win32 win32 zip MS Windows 95 98 2000 XP win32 win32 zip MS Windows NT DEC Alpha alphant alphant zip REDUCE is based on Standard LISP and this version requires the availability of Portable Standard Lisp PSL version 4 2 The PSL files necessary to run REDUCE are included on the system CD ROM This is not however a complete PSL system and in particular does not include PSL sources A complete PSL if needed is available separately from the Konrad Zuse Zentrum contact Konrad Zuse Zentrum fiir Informationstechnik Berlin Takustrasse 7
13. irst uses the script dbuild to build a version of REDUCE suitable for compiling all packages After that mkpckge is run for all packages defined in upackage bat checkall f This can be used to check the logs generated by testall with the exemplary ver sions found in the packges folders This uses a per1 script to compare a log generated by tstpckge with the equivalent exemplary version found in the packages r1q file dbuild This is used by buildps1 to build a version of REDUCE suitable for compiling all packages mkpckge This creates a single fasl file from a package file It is used in the form mkpckge lt package name gt for files in the packages directory The location of the packages in the file tree is defined in packages support packages red mkreduce This creates the REDUCE executable from PSL and REDUCE fasl files Under Windows NT or Windows 95 98 2000 it is recommended to use the MKREDUCE icon from the REDUCE 3 8 group folder instead This script definitely requires the variables REDUCE and MACHINE to be set properly remake This creates new fasl files in case of local changes or a new patches red file Under Windows NT or Windows 95 98 2000 it is recommended to use the REMAKE icon from the REDUCE 3 8 group folder instead This script definitely requires the variables REDUCE and MACHINE to be set properly tstpckge This can be used to run one of the test files in the packages di
14. namely REDUCE MACHINE LISP GNUPLOT and HELPDIR these have to be set to the following values set REDUCE lt root of the REDUCE file tree gt set HELPDIR reduce help set LISP psl set MACHINE lt win32 win31 or alphant gt set GNUPLOT reduce wutil SMACHINES depending on the installed version of REDUCE Using these variables allows you to keep several version of REDUCE in the same file tree Please add these settings to the file c autoexec bat under Windows 95 or Windows 98 and use the Settings gt ControlPanel gt System gt Environment mechanism under Windows NT Windows 2000 or Windows XP If all or some of the settings are missing there is a risk of malfunction of some components Under Windows 95 or 98 you have to reboot the system in order to make the new settings work 3 3 Automatic Installation using Setup Following these installation steps is recommended If your CD ROM drive supports the autorun feature setup is started automatically after mounting the CD ROM into the drive Under MS Windows 95 98 and Windows NT 2000 XP the installation material is prepared to be used by the MS Setup program In Windows 95 98 or NT 2000 XP if the autorun feature is not supported please 1 press the Start Button of the taskbar 2 Select Run from the menu 3 Enter DriveLetter Setup Setup as command for execution e g d setup setup This will start the Setup P
15. rectory tstpckge lt pack age gt will run a test file lt package package gt tst t stpckge generates a log file lt package gt rlg in the log directory testall This script runs all the tests contained in the packages directories using the t stpckge script on each one This script takes considerable time to complete at least an hour on a 486 system for example 8 Patches for REDUCE The REDUCE system is equipped with a mechanism for correcting bugs in situ The basis for such corrections is the file packages support patches red It contains individual patches for the REDUCE core modules and for REDUCE packages Its header contains the actual date of the file and gives information about the repaired bugs A version of this file is delivered with all REDUCE disk sets including Personal REDUCE The installed binary includes the contents of this file in compiled form The most recent version of the file pat ches red can be obtained from the REDUCE Web site at www reduce algebra com in the directory patches To install a new version on your system please perform the following steps e professional REDUCE 1 copy patches red to the directory packages support 2 run the script util remake This script compiles the patches file Alternatively and easier you can double click the REMAKE icon in the REDUCE 3 8 group 3 run the script ut il mk reduce in order to build a new binary or doubleclick the MKRE DUCE icon in the REDUCE
16. rogram which takes over control on the installation process and will offer a choice of options for the installation At all stages of this installation it is possible to exit the ongoing process by pressing the Cancel or Exit button It is also possible to install additional parts of the software or text files in a secondary installation step The installation steps are as follows After Setup has been started either automatically via autorun or manually you will see this window JA Setup REDUCE 3 7 REDUCE Setup Welcome to PSL based REDUCE This session will install the selectable parts of the REDUCE Computer Algebra System You need not install all material in one step You may repeat this step later to add parts 1 Enter your choice of the REDUCE path e g C REDUCE REDUCE Setup Destination path The setup program will install the REDUCE file tree into the following directory Path C REDUCE The setup program will overwrite currently existing in the directory A program group will also be added to the Program Manager Continue Back Exit 2 Select the parts of the software which you want to install In order to produce a running system one has to choose one of the binary version suited for the actual operating system JA Setup REDUCE 3 7 REDUCE Setup Select from the installable options x Install or replace one of the following packages Binaries for Windows 95 98 or Windows NT

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