1@comment -*-texinfo-*- 2@comment Id: README_ftp.texi,v 1.1 2003/08/08 14:27:06 pertusus Exp $ 3@c FILE: README_download.texi 4@c PURPOSE: This should reside as README file in the main directory of the 5@c Singular ftp site. 6 7@ifclear VERSION 8@include version.texi 9@end ifclear 10 11 12@majorheading Welcome to the Main FTP site of SINGULAR 13 14@sc{Singular} is a Computer Algebra system for polynomial computations 15with special emphasis on the needs of commutative algebra, algebraic 16geometry, singularity theory and polynomial system solving. For a more 17detailed overview of 18@sc{Singular}, see 19@display 20@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Overview/} 21@end display 22 23@sc{Singular} is developed on UNIX systems (Linux and HPUX). 24Moreover, there exist ports to FreeBSD, SunOS, IRIX, AIX, 25and Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP. 26If your operating system is not in this list you may try to port 27@sc{Singular} to your platform 28(see @uref{http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/ftp/pub/Math/Singular/src/README.html}) 29 30@macro nref{name,url} 31@ifhtml 32@item @uref{\url\,,\name\} 33@end ifhtml 34@ifinfo 35@item @code{\name\} 36@end ifinfo 37@end macro 38 39In this directory you find the following files: 40@table @asis 41@nref{NEWS, NEWS.html} 42news and changes of this version 43@nref{COPYING, COPYING.html} 44license information for @sc{Singular} 45@nref{INSTALL_unix, INSTALL_unix.html} 46Unix installation instructions 47@nref{INSTALL_win, INSTALL_win.html} 48Windows installation instructions 49@item @code{Singular-@value{VERSION}-share.tar.gz} 50@sc{Singular} distribution archive which contains architecture 51independent data like documentation and libraries. 52@item @code{Singular-@value{VERSION}-<uname>}.tar.gz 53@sc{Singular} distribution archives which contain architecture dependent 54executables, like the @sc{Singular} program. 55@end table 56 57@include README_download.texi 58 59@heading More information about @sc{Singular}: Comments, Questions, Bug Reports 60 61More and up-to-date information about @sc{Singular} is always available 62from 63@display 64@uref{http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/}. 65@end display 66We very much welcome any comments, questions, and bug reports, 67especially comments about our new version. Please 68contact us at 69@display 70@email{singular@@mathematik.uni-kl.de}. 71@end display 72 73GOOD LUCK and ENJOY! 74Your @sc{Singular} team. 75 76