X programs on Ricardo and ac
This listing is incomplete and under construction, but here is a first
stab at setting out some of the resources available under X on Ricardo.
The categories below are partially overlapping and the assignment of
programs to categories somewhat arbitrary. If you want to know about a
specific program, try doing a search for it using your browser's "Find"
function (e.g. in Netscape, use "Find in page..." under the Edit menu).
Also see the section below on postscript
documentation for X programs. In addition you may find useful
a Web interface
to the manual pages for programs on Ricardo.
Symbolic math
- MuPAD:
Homepage at www.mupad.de.
Manual pages ("man mupad" etc.) available for mupad, xmupad. Further
documentation available via MuPAD homepage. Program is on Ricardo.
- Xmaple:
Homepage at www.maplesoft.on.ca.
Useful tutorial at
Montana State. Program is on ricardo.
TeX/LaTeX
There is a full-featured installation of the TeX text processor
on Ricardo. To get started look here,
and for tutorial and reference material look here.
Statistical Computation
- Ox: Local HTML docs are here
(with links to Jurgen Doornik's pages at Oxford). There's also
a tutorial in the form of a
pdf file. Program is on Ricardo under /usr/local/ox,
where you can look for sample files, source code and so on.
Note: ox does not actually require an X connection to Ricardo (Exceed),
other than for viewing any graphics files you create; you can use ox
via telnet to Ricardo.
Graphics
- Xfig: On-line manual page available from
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Program (and regular man
page) on Ricardo. Printable document in /usr/doc/psfiles.
- XV: Useful information available from web sites at
Colorado State
and the Oak Ridge
National Lab. Manual page for xv available. Program is on
both Ricardo and ac.
- xpaint: Tutorial available from
Colorado State.
Man page available. Program is on Ricardo.
- gnuplot: Homepage at
Dartmouth.
Detailed information here.
Man page available. Program on Ricardo.
- Gimp: The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a PhotoShop look-alike.
Homepage at www.gimp.org. Very
sophisticated. Man page available. Program on Ricardo.
Many X programs come with printable documentation in the form of postscript
files. These are usually identifiable by the filename extension .ps.
Sometimes such files are compressed using the gzip utility: in that case the
filename extension is generally .ps.gz. It is easy to view and print
such files on Ricardo. To view them, type gva foo.ps or
gva foo.ps.gz as appropriate (replace "foo" with the actual
filename). This starts up the "Ghostview" postscript viewer program. You
can then print the file from the menus in Ghostview. To print a .ps file
directly you can type lpr foo.ps. This will not work for
gzipped files; but you can uncompress such files by typing gunzip
foo.ps.gz. Print jobs are sent to the Lexmark Optra in the Economics
Department office by default.
A small archive of printable postscript documentation can be found in the
directory /usr/doc/psfiles on Ricardo.