What's new on Math Dept Computers?

This page will be used to post updates on new packages that have been installed on the Math Department Unix computers. Unless otherwise specified, packages listed here are available on hans.

Remote Computing (January 27)

Remaining x-terminal users should now be advised: large Maple computations can run nearly twice as fast on the linux terminals than they can directly on hans. To run Maple or any other application remotely, ssh to the target linux terminal with the '-X' flag. On the linux-terms 'xmaple' will call Maple 7 and 'xmaple8' will call Maple 8.

Please be respectful of other users while running programs remotely. The two lab linux-terminals (4n11.math and 4n49) generally get only moderate usage.

latex2html 98.1p1 (October 7)

Latest version of latex2html. A summary of new features can be found in the file /apps/latex2html-98.1p1/Changes. If needed, the previous version can be run as latex2html-97.1.

pine-4.02, pico-3.02 (July 22)

Latest major versions of Pine mail reader and Pico editor. (Default versions are Pine 3.95, Pico 2.9).

A summary of changes to Pine can be seen at http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/3.96-to-4.00.html. Some additional information is also described in chanes from Pine 4.00 to Pine 4.01 and chanes from Pine 3.95 to Pine 3.96.

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