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<title> How to install/use OpenXM/Risa/Asir? </title>
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<h1> How to use <font color="green"> OpenXM/Risa/Asir for Windows </font> <br>
(a distributed system for computational mathematics)? </h1>
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<h2> System requirements</h2>
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The system
<a href="http://www.openxm.org"> OpenXM</a>/Risa/Asir for Windows
works on Windows 2000/XP.
It is <font color="green"> a developing version </font> and
supports only <font color="green"> a subset </font> of the OpenXM package.
The full support is available only on the unix version of
OpenXM/Risa/Asir.
OpenXM/Risa/Asir also works on Windows 98/ME, but
it is slow because the communication speed among OpenXM components
through TCP/IP
is very slow on Windows 98/ME.
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<h2> How to start
<a href="http://www.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/Asir/asir.html"> OpenXM/Risa/Asir
</a> on CD. </h2>
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You do not necessarily need to install OpenXM/Risa/Asir to the hard disk.
You can directly start the OpenXM/Risa/Asir on this CD.
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<li> Open the "My Computer" on your desktop and Open the CD.
<li> Open the "OpenXM-win" folder in the CD, and next open the "asir" folder,
and finally open the "bin" folder.
Double-click "asirgui-cd" in the "bin" folder, then you can
start OpenXM/Risa/Asir.
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Programs for OpenXM/Risa/Asir should be written by
a text editor like notepad.
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The batch files in OpenXM-win\bin-windows are developping version.
They will not work.
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<h2> How to start Risa/Asir for Windows
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The asirgui under OpenXM-win\asir\bin is the (plain) Risa/Asir, Kobe distribution.
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<h2> How to install OpenXM-win to your harddisk C: </h2>
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<li> Open the CD (Open "My Computer" and next open the CD).
<li> Open the harddisk C:
(Open "My Computer" and next open the harddisk "C:").
<li> Copy the folder "OpenXM-win" in the CD to the harddisk "C:\" by drag and drop.
<li> Starting method is the same with the starting method of
OpenXM/Risa/Asir on CD.
You may create a shortcut of asirgui-cd by clicking the right button of the
mouse and put the shorcut on your desktop.
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Do not copy OpenXM-win to the desktop or folders
which use non-ascii characters and the space letter as their names.
It is a developing version and will not work.
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<h2> How to uninstall? </h2>
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Just move OpenXM-win to the trash box.
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<h2> How to install <font color="green"> OpenXM-win </font>
from the archive file
<font color="green"> OpenXM-win.tgz </font> on the OpenXM ftp cite. </h2>
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Use <a href="http://www.winzip.com"> winzip </a>.
The extracted folder OpenXM-win should be put under c:\
If you do not have winzip and do not want to use it,
an alternative is to get "tar.exe" and "gzip.exe" for windows and
extract OpenXM-win by
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<font color="green"> tar xzvf OpenXM-win.tgz </font>
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in the command prompt.
The files "tar.exe" and "gzip.exe" are obtainable from
<a href="ftp://ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/pub/OpenXM/misc/1.2.2/tar.exe"> ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp(tar.exe) </a>
and
<a href="ftp://ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/pub/OpenXM/misc/1.2.2/gzip.exe"> ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp(gzip.exe) </a>
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<h2> Documents </h2>
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Manuals can be found under the "help" menu or at
<a href="http://www.math.kobe-u.ac.jp/OpenXM/1.2.2/doc/index.html">
openxm.org (documents) </a> or
you can find manuals by
inputting <font color="green"> fctr asir </font> in the search field of
<a href="http://www.google.com"> google </a>
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<h2> How to start kan/sm1 for Windows
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The sm1 under OpenXM-win\bin is the Kan/sm1 binary for Windows.
You can start sm1 by double clicking OpenXM-win\bin\sm1 in the CD.
If you install OpenXM-win in your hard disk but did not install
under c:\ , you need to set some environemental variables
properly. See the source of asirgui-cd.bat
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