Short: Biographies of some famous mathematicians Type: misc/math Uploader: artinoc@rosnet.strose.edu (Carmen Artino) Author: artinoc@rosnet.strose.edu (Carmen Artino) Welcome to The Makers of Mathematics A Hyperbook Application by Carmen Artino This archive contains the fruit of a project I started last year and worked on from time to time. It is a Hyperbook application that presents short biographies of some famous mathematicians. The program is very easy to install. 1. Copy ALL the files to a drawer on your hard drive except for the font files. For example, Work:Makers. Copy the fonts your fonts: directory. 2. assign Makers: [drawer where you copied the above files] For example, assign Makers: work:Makers You can put this in your user-startup sequence if you like. 3. Make sure that your sys:system directory contains the cli program. 4. Double-click the program's icon. 5. Once the program starts, click the How To Use button on the lower right-hand side of the screen. 6. Enjoy. Notes: ****************************************************************** * * * The program is over 650,000 bytes not including the HBBrowser * * program so it takes awhile to load, about 15 secs on my A3000. * * The startup "wait" screen has been timed with this in mind. If * * you use the program on anything less than a 68030 Amiga, the * * "wait" screen may disappear before the entire program loads. * * No harm done but give it time, it will get there! * * * ****************************************************************** I don't recommend that you use the program from a floppy disk. It would really take forever to load! Not only that, but all the needed files won't fit on a standard density Amiga floppy. The startup file is called Start_Makers and is an AmigaDOS script; it assumes you have made the above assign. If not the script will fail and the program will not start. Also, you can change the time that the "wait" screen your monitor by altering the "secs" (currently 15) parameter to whatever works on your system. Load the Start_Makers file into a text editor, then change this parameter which appears on the second line of the script. Then resave the file. Files in the archive: File size ---------------------------- FacesIntro.pic 38388 HBBrowser 93048 M 15448 Makers 663889 Makers.info 1767 Start_Makers 133 ReadMe 3228 ReadMe.info 1348 MuchMore 24156 Fonts (Drawer) HPTest (Drawer) 8 2664 HPTest.font 264 intuitive (Drawer) 6 1000 intuitive.font 264 Notebook (Drawer) 8 3172 9 3320 Notebook.font 524 Siesta (Drawer) 8 2584 9 3220 11 3192 Siesta.font 784 Swan_Song (Drawer) 15 2436 26 4700 50 13276 Swan_Song.font 784 Times (Drawer) 18 5264 Times.font 1304 If you have any difficulties, leave me e-mail at one of the two sites mentioned below. Carmen Artino Department of Mathematics The College of Saint Rose Albany, NY 12203 e-mail: Internet: artinoc@rosnet.strose.edu cdAug BBS (518) 370-5207 ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 38388 18091 52.8% 16-May-94 14:17:24 FacesIntro.pic 468 224 52.1% 16-May-94 14:17:26 fonts.info 264 28 89.3% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/HPtest.font 264 31 88.2% 16-May-94 14:18:40 fonts/intuitive.font 524 46 91.2% 16-May-94 14:18:48 fonts/Notebook.font 784 59 92.4% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/Siesta.font 784 64 91.8% 16-May-94 16:52:58 fonts/Swan_Song.font 1304 86 93.4% 16-May-94 14:19:26 fonts/times.font 2664 1624 39.0% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/HPtest/8 1000 674 32.6% 16-May-94 14:18:40 fonts/intuitive/6 3172 1740 45.1% 16-May-94 14:18:48 fonts/Notebook/8 3320 1750 47.2% 16-May-94 14:18:48 fonts/Notebook/9 3192 1687 47.1% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/Siesta/11 2584 1493 42.2% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/Siesta/8 3220 1801 44.0% 16-May-94 14:17:24 fonts/Siesta/9 2436 1162 52.2% 16-May-94 16:52:58 fonts/Swan_Song/15 4700 2136 54.5% 16-May-94 16:52:58 fonts/Swan_Song/26 13276 4363 67.1% 16-May-94 16:52:58 fonts/Swan_Song/50 5264 3087 41.3% 16-May-94 14:19:24 fonts/times/18 93048 51857 44.2% 16-May-94 14:17:32 HBBrowser 15448 10013 35.1% 16-May-94 14:17:32 M 663889 431797 34.9% 16-May-94 14:18:06 Makers 1774 579 67.3% 16-May-94 17:13:08 Makers.info 3228 1540 52.2% 01-Jun-94 15:17:00 Makers.readme 1352 801 40.7% 01-Jun-94 15:23:04 Makers.readme.info 24156 14045 41.8% 16-May-94 17:36:48 MuchMore 124 88 29.0% 16-May-94 17:24:38 Start_Makers -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 890627 550866 38.1% 08-Jun-94 10:19:24 27 files