This message announces the availability of JACAL release jacal1b2.

New in jacal1b2:

 + Detailed installation instructions for Unix, Linux, Apple, and
   Microsoft systems.

 + Uses SLIB uniform-arrays.

 + Improved 'jacal' script.

	* Makefile (CITERS, CITES): Abstracted functional file groups.
	* ff.scm (ff:null-space-basis-gcl-bug, ff:null-space-basis):
	(ff:q-matrix): Changed to use create-array.
	* jacal.texi (Concept Index): Added.
	(Installation): Rewrote with separate instructions per platform.
	(Manifest): Added.
	* Makefile (README): Generate from jacal$(VERSION).info.
	* jacal.texi (Starting Jacal): Removed .scm from slib:load
	example.
	* elim.scm (infinite-list-of): Removed.
	(eliminate): Check that parallel bunches are the same length.
	* Makefile, jacal.sh, jacal.spec (guile.scm): Create special
	script for guile because it needs (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) in
	order to access SLIB.
	* Makefile (unjacal48): Target added; deletes scheme48.image.
	* Makefile (rpm): Build src.rpm also.
	* scl.scm (multiarg/and-): Added require of.
	* jacal.spec (%install): Create script
	${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{prefix}/bin/jacal containing
	JACALDIR=%{prefix}/share/jacal/.
	* jacal.sh: Make install or building rpm prepends JACALDIR
	definition to script.
	* Makefile (install): Makes up script $(exec_prefix)bin/jacal.

2001-08-29  Bo Forslund  <bo.forslund@abc.se>

	* jacal.spec (Prefix): Use builtin %{_prefix}.
	(%post): .* allows use of .bz2 or .gz.
	* Makefile (pinstall): HELP file added.

JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program.  JACAL can
manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices of
single and multiple valued algebraic expressions containing numbers,
variables, radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic
functions.

JACAL is written in Scheme.  A version of Scheme (IEEE P1178 and R4RS
compliant) written in C is available with JACAL.  SCM runs on Amiga,
Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Unix and similar
systems.

Documentation is included in the distribution.  Documentation is also
online at:

	    http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html

JACAL is available from:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal1b2.zip
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal1b2.zip (FTP instructions follow)
Also available as RPM:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/jacal-1b2-1.noarch.rpm
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/jacal-1b2-1.noarch.rpm

SLIB is a portable scheme library which JACAL requires:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib2d3.zip
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib2d3.zip
Also available as RPM:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib-2d3-1.noarch.rpm
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/slib-2d3-1.noarch.rpm

SCM is a small Scheme implementation under which JACAL will run.
SCM source is available from:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm5d5.zip
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm5d5.zip
Also available as i386 binary RPM:
 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/scm-5d5-1.i386.rpm
 swissnet.ai.mit.edu:/pub/scm/scm-5d5-1.i386.rpm

Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which JACAL
has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from:
 ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz
