How to use OpenXM/Risa/Asir for Windows
(a distributed system for computational mathematics)?

System requirements

 The system OpenXM/Risa/Asir for Windows works on Windows 2000/XP. It is a developing version and supports only a subset 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.

How to start OpenXM/Risa/Asir on CD.

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.
  1. Open the "My Computer" on your desktop and Open the CD.
  2. 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.

Programs for OpenXM/Risa/Asir should be written by a text editor like notepad.

The batch files in OpenXM-win\bin-windows are developping version. They will not work.

How to start Risa/Asir for Windows

The asirgui under OpenXM-win\asir\bin is the (plain) Risa/Asir, Kobe distribution.

How to install OpenXM-win to your harddisk C:

  1. Open the CD (Open "My Computer" and next open the CD).
  2. Open the harddisk C: (Open "My Computer" and next open the harddisk "C:").
  3. Copy the folder "OpenXM-win" in the CD to the harddisk "C:\" by drag and drop.
  4. 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.
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.

How to uninstall?

Just move OpenXM-win to the trash box.

How to install OpenXM-win from the archive file OpenXM-win.tgz on the OpenXM ftp cite.

Use winzip . 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
tar xzvf OpenXM-win.tgz
in the command prompt. The files "tar.exe" and "gzip.exe" are obtainable from ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp(tar.exe) and ftp.math.kobe-u.ac.jp(gzip.exe)

Documents

Manuals can be found under the "help" menu or at openxm.org (documents) or you can find manuals by inputting fctr asir in the search field of google

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