Compiled by: Richard Akerman (akerman@qucis.queensu.ca) Version: 2.0 v2.0 available by anon FTP from wuarchive: /systems/amiga/incoming/text/AmigaSciSchool-2.0.readme A summary of info I have on hand about Science/School/UNIX software. Note: I am not a FAQ maintainer or anything. I make no claims about the correctness of this info. It's a combination of things I have found out myself (I use most of these programs) and info from the net (mostly uncredited, sorry) Covered: 1. MAPLE V 2. X-windows TeX 3a. AmigaTeX 3b. PasTeX 1.3 3c. DVIprint 3d. dvi2lj 3e. fig 3f. ARexx macros for TeX 4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26 4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19 5. UNIX commands [every one you ever wanted] 5a. man 5b. diff 5c. compress, uncompress, zcat 5d. tar 5e. tarsplit 5f. ispell 3.3LJR 5g. nroff 5h. ixemul.library 6. GNU plot 3.2 7. FTP sites Appendix A. Programs on grind Appendix B. Programs on wuarchive NOTE: some of these files/archives are very large. Often they contain source or other files you may not need. If you can, use lha on UNIX beforehand to delete all unneeded files in the archive. 1. MAPLE V ================================================================= MAPLE V, a professional "Mathematica"-like program is available for the Amiga. [address & price from d92hl@efd.lth.se (Henrik Laurila)] Maplesoft 160 Colombia Street West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3L3 Canada Price : US $795 "I believe there's a student discount - I think a friend of mine who bought it here in Canada paid only $485 Canadian" -- baltzebw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Bruce W. Baltzer) Contact: info@maplesoft.on.ca 2. X-windows =============================================================== X-windows is available from GfxBase GfxBase, Inc. 1881 Ellwell Dr. Milpitas, CA 95035 (408) 262-1469 (408) 262-8276 (FAX) contact Dale Luck: dale@ntg.com 3a. AmigaTeX ================================================================ AmigaTeX is available from Radical Eye US $200. About 6 program disks + 6 font disks, so about 6 MB programs, 6 MB fonts. 1 or 2 MB memory needed I would say. Radical Eye P.O. Box 2081 Stanford, CA 94309 contact Tomas Rokicki: rokicki@cs.stanford.edu 3b. PasTeX 1.3 ============================================================== There is also a PD TeX called PasTeX. Look on wuarchive, /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3/ The files are full disks compressed with Zoom, from Fish #682 ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff682/Zoom.lzh 3c. DVIprint ================================================================ Even if you have AmigaTeX you may want a printer driver, as they are $100 each from Radical Eye. You can use DVIprint from the PasTeX distribution. It works remarkably well, just make a tex:config dir and put DVIprint.printers in it. Host athene.uni-paderborn.de Location: /pcsoft/amiga/tex/pastex FILE -rw-r--r-- 57858 May 26 00:00 dviprint.lha 3d. dvi2lj ================================================================== If you have a laserjet you may want to use dvi2lj instead of DVIprint, it's on amiga.physik.unizh.ch (aminet) and mirrors /amiga/text/tex/dvi2lj.lha 109185 bytes [thanks to barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) for this info] 3e. fig ===================================================================== Also from PasTeX you may want the fig package, for structured drawing. On wuarchive, /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/fig.zom 319110 bytes Uncompress with Zoom from Fish #682. 3f. ARexx macros for TeX =================================================== I have uploaded ARexx macro things for TeXify and ToError for AmigaTex to wuarchive, in /systems/amiga/incoming/utils Ed-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for Ed Emacs-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for GNU emacs There are also TeXify ARexx macro things for CED on wuarchive, /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/texify-1.12.lzh 4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26 =================================================== The author of GNU emacs and various GNU UNIX command ports (ls, mv, grep, ...) is David Gay. You'll need a couple MB of hard disk and RAM. available from amiga.physik and mirrors Also, wuarchive /systems/amiga/incoming/utils/ a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA (full emacs, also ls, grep, sort) contact David Gay: dgay@di.epfl.ch 4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19 ================================================ Along with GNU emacs you'll probably want the fifo.library from Fish 588. ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff588/ Also you may want to replace the UNIX sh with csh 5.19 from Fish 624. I needed to do this to use a TeX-shell in GNUemacs TeX-mode. (NOTE: Using ARexx is better than using the TeX-shell anyway.) ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff624/ 5. UNIX commands =========================================================== Most all UNIX commands are available: GNUEMACS:c etags grep ls rmdir sort MRMan MRMan UNIX:fileutils-3.3/c chmod d = udir - does some dir thing, no man dd - convert a file while copying it ln (rmdir) mkdir mv rm touch udir = d v = vdir - does a list thing, no man vdir = v (ls) UNIX:textutils-1.3/c cat cmp - compare two files comm - compare two sorted files line by line csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines cut - remove sections from each line of files expand - convert tabs to spaces fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width head nl - number lines of files paste - merge lines of files pr - convert text files for printing split sum tac- concatenate and print files in reverse tail tr - translate or delete characters ujoin unexpand uniq wc UNIX:grep-1.6 egrep (grep) UNIX:diff-1.15 diff UNIX:compress-4.0 compress uncompress zcat UNIX:UnixUtils/c gnutar uncompress uncompressbatch unshar uudecode uuencode uusplit UNIX:TarSplit tarsplit EDITORS:ispell-3.3LJR ispell See Appendix A and Appendix B for locations 5a. man ====================================================================== a UNIX-like "man" called MRMan is available on Fish #281 ux1: /amiga/fish/f2/ff281/MRMan.lzh 46332 bytes This has zcat included with it. It supports a MANPATH, your choice of "more" like utility. You can use it to access all of the man pages for the UNIX textutils and fileutils. The ones to put in the MANPATH are the pre-formatted /cat directories. You may want to modify the code so that it will recognize *.1 as a valid man file. You can use NewZAP, from Fish #574 ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff574/NewZAP.lzh 29756 bytes 5b. diff ==================================================================== UNIX diff is available from ftp.uu.net /systems/amiga/dillon filename: diff115.lzh Also see Appendix A, B 5c. compress, uncompress, zcat ============================================ compress is available in the compress-4.0 distribution. Note that to get uncompress and zcat you simply copy compress copy compress uncompress copy compress zcat The program operates according to the name it is invoked with. 5d. tar ==================================================================== UNIX tar is available on Fish #445 (ux1: /amiga/fish/f4/ff445/ ) It may give you a total system crash when extracting from an archive unless you use NewZAP (Fish #574) to apply the patch in Tar/patch01/src/bin.patch1 A patched version is also available on wuarchive, /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive/tar-patched.lzh [patching by (Alan Bair) abair@parsons.sps.mot.com] 5e. tarsplit =============================================================== For extracting from .tar archives only you can use tarsplit. 5f. ispell 3.3LJR ========================================================== ispell 3.3 LJR is available from wuarchive, /systems/amiga/incoming/utils/ispell-3.3LJR.lha 550746 bytes The hash file is about 500k, HD highly recommended. The distribution now includes GUIspell 1.1, it also has .el files for GNUemacs and Rexx files for many editors. If you already have ispell, the .el files for emacs are also available on wuarachive, /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/ispell.lha 5g. nroff ================================================================== There is nroff available for the Amiga to process man files. It doesn't handle many attributes. wuarchive: /systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/nroffamiga.lha 56822 bytes 5h. ixemul.library ========================================================= nroff requires v 39+ of ixemul.library, from wuarchive /systems/amiga/incoming/misc/ixemul.lzh 6. GNU plot 3.2 ============================================================ GNU plot 3.2 is on Fish disk 701 ux1: /amiga/fish/f7/ff701/ 7. FTP sites =============================================================== Major US Amiga site: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] Other US Amiga site: grind.isca.uiowa.edu Major US Fish site: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59] Major Euro Amiga site: amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80] mirrored on wuarchive /mirrors4 Appendix A. Programs on grind ============================================= utils/ total 109 -rwxr-xr-x+ 14418 Oct 27 1992 UU.LHA -rwxr-xr-x+ 186 Oct 27 1992 UU.readme -rwxr-xr-x+ 1182 Dec 03 1991 UnixUtils.Readme -rwxr-xr-x+ 178639 Nov 24 1991 UnixUtils.lzh -rwxr-xr-x+ 496099 Oct 18 1992 amiga-fileutils-3.3.LHA -rwxr-xr-x+ 143291 Oct 16 1992 amiga-grep-1.6.LHA -rwxr-xr-x+ 584149 Oct 18 1992 amiga-textutils-1.3.LHA -rwxr-xr-x+ 32368 Oct 20 1992 compress-4.0.lzh -rwxr-xr-x+ 35664 Dec 03 1992 diff115.lzh -rwxr-xr-x+ 550746 Nov 24 1992 ispell-3.3LJR.lha -rwxr-xr-x+ 2451 Nov 24 1992 ispell-3.3LJR.readme -rwxr-xr-x+ 15444 Nov 03 1992 tarsplit.lha -rwxr-xr-x+ 725 Nov 03 1992 tarsplit.readme Appendix B. Programs on wuarchive ========================================= utilities/text/utils: total 5155 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 667542 Dec 18 1990 tex-3.1.lzh -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 20155 Jan 5 1992 texify-1.12.lzh -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 319110 Mar 17 1992 fig.zom drwxrwxr-x 4 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 pastex-1.3 -r--rw-r-- 1 root 103403 Jun 29 00:03 dvipsamiga.lha -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2038 Jun 29 00:03 dvipsamiga.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 56822 Jun 29 00:03 nroffamiga.lha -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2313 Jun 29 00:03 nroffamiga.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 10428 Jul 7 20:30 ispell.lha -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2442 Jul 7 20:30 ispell.readme utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3: total 3150 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 1027 Oct 9 1990 extras.readme -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 543209 Oct 11 1990 extras.zoo -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 458766 Oct 5 1991 disk-4.zom -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 1074 Oct 5 1991 README -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 702054 Oct 5 1991 disk-5.zom -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 339078 Oct 5 1991 disk-2.zom -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 681546 Oct 5 1991 disk-3.zom -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 456046 Oct 5 1991 disk-1.zom drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 metafont-2.7 drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Jun 25 08:59 previewfonts utilities/disks/backup: total 192 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 191648 Feb 3 1992 gnutar.lzh incoming/utils: total 10785 -r--rw-r-- 1 root 969340 Oct 15 21:32 a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2402 Oct 15 21:33 a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2963672 Oct 15 21:52 a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.LHA -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2401 Oct 15 21:52 a1.26-emacs-18.58-src.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 496099 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-fileutils-3.3.LHA -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1330 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-fileutils-3.3.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 143291 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-grep-1.6.LHA -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1325 Oct 15 21:55 amiga-grep-1.6.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 584149 Oct 15 21:57 amiga-textutils-1.3.LHA -r--rw-r-- 1 root 1330 Oct 15 21:57 amiga-textutils-1.3.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 550746 Nov 20 11:20 ispell-3.3LJR.lha -r--rw-r-- 1 root 2451 Nov 20 11:20 ispell-3.3LJR.readme -r--rw-r-- 1 root 48620 Nov 20 11:20 ls-4.7LJR.lha -r--rw-r-- 1 root 7042 Nov 20 11:20 ls-4.7LJR.readme