On 11/13/07, Constantine Frangos wrote: > > Following the recent posting re. aldor and axiom etc, I dowloaded the > aldor system file aldor-linux-i386-glibc2.3-1.0.3.bin (21051230 bytes). > > What program in suse linux 10.2, can be used to unpack this file ? > (extension .bin is unfamiliar). I guess that there are instructions on > how to compile, etc.
This is self-extracting script file. All you have to do is run it. Usually I do the following in a linux terminal: $ chmod a+x aldor-linux-i386-glibc2.3-1.0.3.bin $ ./aldor-linux-i386-glibc2.3-1.0.3.bin Be sure to read the installation instructions. The installation is not completely automatic. > > I know aldor can do numeric computations, but its not clear whether > it can also manipulate symbolic expressions, matrices, plot graphs, > etc like in axiom ? > Yes, certainly it can. (In fact that is it's main design goal!) But keep in mind that Aldor (like Spad in Axiom) is a *compiler*, not an interpreter. This means that compiling, testing and running programs in Aldor is a little more complicated than using the Axiom interpreter. Also in some respects the libraries available for Aldor are considerably less extensive than what is available for Axiom. If you like Aldor and you also would like to continue to use Axiom as the user interface you might be interested in: http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/AldorForAxiom If you search for "Aldor" in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the page, you will also find some other examples of using Aldor in Axiom. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
