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Import PARI/GP 2.0.17 beta.

PARI/GP is developped and tested in the Unix world. Since sticking to Unix
would prevent many users from enjoying the system [not everybody wants to
install Linux], PARI has been (partly) ported to DOS using the EMX runtime
package. The resulting binary GP.EXE should be usable on most DOS-based
platforms, although it won't share the traditional look and feel of e.g
native Windows programs. Binaries may or may not be available after each
Unix release.

Everything written in this file applies to DOS 3.0 or higher, OS/2 2.0 and
higher, and Windows 3.1 (unless noted otherwise). It seems that GP.EXE runs
more or less correctly in a DOS window under Windows 95/98/NT, but this has
not been extensively tested. An 80386 CPU or higher is required in any case.
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I: What's in there ?
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The DOS archive is divided in 5 parts: the first 3 will change each time an
update is made (xxxx stands for a version number), the last two need only be
downloaded once, if at all. The complete sources are distributed in the Unix
version, but are not required unless you want to compile GP or the PARI
library yourself.

1) Binaries (GPB): GPB_xxxx.ZIP
  + GP.EXE binary, linked with GNU readline 
  + an EXAMPLES directory, containing sample GP scripts and a GPRC file
    (copy the latter to C:\_GPRC and adapt it to your needs)

  GP.EXE is an EMX executable; it it doesn't start up, check EMX\EMXRT.DOC
  (DOS, OS/2) or RSX\README.TXT (Windows 3.1). The runtime packages themselves
  are in GPRT.ZIP.

2) PostScript Documentation (GPD): GPD_xxxx.ZIP
  user's manual, tutorial and reference card, in PostScript format

3) TeX Documentation (GPM): GPM_xxxx.ZIP
  in (hopefully human readable) TeX format
  Also contains the script GPHELP (translates Pari documentation
  to plain text, handles indexing), which requires Perl (not included).
  You may have to fix paths in the first lines of the script.
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4) EMX/RSX runtime package (GPRT): GPRT.ZIP
  files you will need if the provided binary GP.EXE doesn't work as is.

5) Readline (GPRL): GPRL.ZIP
  source of the _modified_ readline library used to compile GP.EXE

The files can be extracted using UNZIP or PKUNZIP -D (don't forget the -D)
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II: What do I need ? (X = required, [X] = optional)
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    To run GP |  To compile libpari | To compile GP
              |                     |
GPB      X    |                     |
GPD     [X]   |                     |
GPM     [X]   |                     |
GPRT     X    |                     |
GPRL          |                     |       X
sources       |           X         |       X
galdata [X]   |                     |

'sources' refers to the generic Unix distribution archive (pari.tgz).
'galdata' is the file galdata.tgz which can be found at the same place as
pari.tgz. It is only needed to compute the Galois group of polynomials of
degree 8 to 11 (higher degrees not implemented).

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III: What do I do with it ?

  1) I only want to use GP.EXE

* For DOS: install EMX.EXE from GPRT somewhere in your path.  If you have
enough RAM (~ 2MB), you can run GP.EXE as is, but some functionalities
(extended help, external commands) will only be available if you use the
command line EMX -P GP.EXE [put that in a GP.BAT file, or (preferably)
fetch a decent shell (e.g. bash) and use an alias].

* For Windows 3.1: install RSX.EXE and CSX.EXE from GPRT somewhere in your
path. Not thoroughly tested; looks ok, though.

* For OS/2: untested. You may need EMX.DLL from GPRT.

If you want to use the polgalois function for polynomials of degree 8 to
11, fetch galdata.tgz and extract it in \pari\data (can't be customized
without recompiling).

  2) I want to build the PARI library for my own C programs

You need the _complete_ EMX package (not the runtime files we provide) and a
make utility (see EMX\README.DOC; dmake and GNU make are both ok). 

Fetch the Unix source distribution (tar and basic shell utilities needed to
extract it). Then, from the distribution top directory:

  cd Odos
  make lib

  3) I also want to recompile GP.EXE

You need the GPRL archive (extract it from the distribution top directory).

  cd readline
  dmake
  cd ..
  cd Odos
  dmake     [if you don't have dmake, comment out the .IF constructs in
             Makefile. Otherwise, type "dmake DBG=1" for a debugging version]

  4) I want to run the benches

Build GP.EXE first (or extract the binary from GPB and put it in the 'Odos'
subdirectory), then type

  cd Odos
  ..\src\test\dotest 

(decent shell and basic Unix tools needed: the djgpp ports of bash and GNU
binutils work nicely, Ian Stewartson's tools are also ok). Make sure FILES
is at least 50 in CONFIG.SYS