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JACAL(1)		     General Commands Manual			JACAL(1)

NAME
     JACAL - symbolic mathematics system

SYNOPSIS
     jacal  [  scheme | scm | gsi | gosh | guile | scheme48 | larceny | scmlit |
     elk | sisc | kawa | mzscheme ]

DESCRIPTION
     JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the simplification and manipula-
     tion of equations and single and multiple valued algebraic expressions con-
     structed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions,  differ-
     ential,  and holonomic functions.	In addition, vectors and matrices of the
     above objects are included.

OPTIONS
     The optional argument to the jacal script is the Scheme  implementation  to
     run.  Absent the argument, it searches for implementations in the above or-
     der.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
	    is the SLIB Scheme library directory.

FILES
     jacal.info
	    Texinfo documentation of jacal.

     demo
	    batch("demo"); to demonstrate commands in jacal

     rw.math
	    batch("rw.math");  to  demonstrate	tensors in "The Robertson-Walker
	    Cosmology Model".

     test.math
	    batch("test.math"); for regression suite.

AUTHORS
     Aubrey Jaffer (agj @ alum.mit.edu)
     Michael Thomas
     Jerry D. Hedden

SEE ALSO
     The JACAL home-page:
     http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/JACAL.html

     The full documentation for jacal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
     info and jacal programs are properly installed at your site, the command
	    info jacal

     should give you access to the complete manual.

4th Berkeley Distribution	   Feb 1 2008				JACAL(1)

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