NCAlgebra announcement
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: NCAlgebra announcement
- From: mstankus at oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 92 10:36:31 PDT
We have a NonCommutative Algebra package which extends
the one in the HEPHYSICS directory (actually this
program was our base code). We have not put it on any
bulletin boards yet, but it is availible through anonymous
ftpm (see below).
Please let us know if you are using the program so that
we can send you updates/know how popular the program is.
Comments/bug reports are welcome.
Mark Stankus
mstankus at oba.ucsd.edu
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NCALGEBRA
Version 0.1
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Thanks you for your interest in NCAlgebra. This message contains the
information necessary for you to use anonymous ftp to transfer the
files from our site to yours. The ONLY thing which you have to
do to get the NCAlgebra package is to follow the following sample
terminal session.
NCAlgebra is at osiris.ucsd.edu, in the pub/ncalg directory. Below
is a record of an actually ftp session. What the user types is
underlined. Quoted expressions describe what should be typed.
(e.g., where you see "Any thing will do.", you may type anything
you want). Ignore all timing data.
Note: If you are unfamiliar with ftp, then note that after the
command "mget *", the computer will respond with the prompt
"mget CEEP?". You should hit the return key to indicate that
you do indeed want to get the file CEEP. The computer will then
prompt you for the next file and you must hit the return key
again. Even though there are about thirty files, the whole
process should take less than five minutes.
BELOW IS A SAMPLE SESSION. IF YOU FOLLOW IT, THEN YOU WILL BE
ABLE TO GET A COPY OF THE NCALGEBRA PACKAGE.
YOU CAN HAVE YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER "GURU" FOLLOW THE BELOW
INSTRUCTIONS AND INSTALL NCALGEBRA AS AN OFFICIAL MATHEMATICA
PACKAGE. ONCE THIS IS DONE, EVERYONE USING THE COMPUTER MAY
USE NCALGEBRA.
% ftp 128.54.18.1
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Connected to 128.54.18.1.
220 osiris FTP server (SunOS 4.0) ready.
Name (128.54.18.1:dhurst): anonymous
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331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: "Any thing will do."
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230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub/ncalg
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250 CWD command successful.
ftp> mget *
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mget CEEP? "You just hit the <Return> key."
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200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for CEEP (128.54.18.8,3053) (453 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: CEEP remote: CEEP
474 bytes received in 0.0043 seconds (1.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
mget CONTENTS? "Just keep on hitting that <Return> key until ... "
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ftp>
ftp> bye
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221 Goodbye.
We have included a file called "ListofFilesAndSizes" in the directory
so that you can compare filenames and filesizes by Kilobyte blocks.
This can be accomplished by typing the following UNIX commands,
ls -s -1 > MyFiles; diff MyFiles ListofFilesAndSizes
If what you have is identical to what we have, there should be NO
output from the diff command. If there is a difference, then try
ftp again. If the difference is "small", talk to a local expert.
We are interested in knowing who has NCAlgebra, so that
we are able to inform them that new versions of the code
are available, etc. PLEASE send us a email message so
that we know that you are using the program.
The documentation for NCAlgebra is contained in the file
NCDOCUMENT. Printing out this file to a printer is the best
first step.
We can email NCAlgebra, if necessary.
Email any questions, comments or requests to
ncalg at osiris.ucsd.edu