This directory contains the distribution of jacal-1c2.  Jacal is a
symbolic mathematics system written in the programming language Scheme.

	     http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html

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1.2 Installation
================

The JACAL program is written in the Algorithmic Language "Scheme".  So
you must obtain and install a Scheme implementation in order to run it.
The installation procedures given here use the SCM Scheme
implementation.  If your system has a Scheme (or Guile) implementation
installed, then the `scm' steps are unnecessary.

  JACAL also requires the SLIB Portable Scheme library which is
available from `http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB'.

 -- System: i686 GNU/Linux with Redhat Package Manager (rpm)
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e7-1.i686.rpm
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm
          rpm -U scm-5e7-1.i686.rpm slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm
          rm scm-5e7-1.i686.rpm slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm

     The command `jacal' will start an interactive session.

 -- System: x86_64 GNU/Linux with Redhat Package Manager (rpm)
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e7-1.x86_64.rpm
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm
          rpm -U scm-5e7-1.x86_64.rpm slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm
          rm scm-5e7-1.x86_64.rpm slib-3b3-1.noarch.rpm jacal-1c2-1.noarch.rpm

     The command `jacal' will start an interactive session.

 -- System: Unix
 -- System: GNU/Linux
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e7.zip
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3.zip
          wget http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c2.zip
          unzip -ao scm-5e7.zip
          unzip -ao slib-3b3.zip
          unzip -ao jacal-1c2.zip
          (cd slib; make install)
          (cd scm; make scm; make install)
          (cd jacal; make install)
          rm scm-5e7.zip slib-3b3.zip jacal-1c2.zip

     The command `jacal' will start an interactive session using ELK,
     Gambit, Guile, Larceny, MIT-Scheme, MzScheme, Scheme48, SCM, or
     SISC.  Type `jacal --help' for instructions.

 -- System: Apple
     `http://www.io.com/~cobblers/scm/' has downloads and utilities for
     installing SCM and SLIB on Macintosh computers.

 -- System: x86 Microsoft
     Download and run
     `http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3b3-1.exe',
     `http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5e7-1.exe', and
     `http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1c2-1.exe'.

Compiling Jacal
---------------

For Scheme implementations with compilers, it is worthwhile to compile
SLIB files, and the JACAL files `types.scm' and `poly.scm'.

