[4f8f94a] | 1 | Singular version 1.0 |
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| 2 | University of Kaiserslautern |
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| 3 | Department of Mathematics Centre for Computer Algebra |
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| 4 | Authors: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann |
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| 5 | (C) 1986-1997 All Rights Reserved |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | README FILE FOR THE EXECUTABLE SINGULAR PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION |
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| 8 | ============================================================ |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | IMPORTANT: Please see the COPYING.bin file contained in this directory |
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| 11 | for license information for the Singular program. |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | This directory contains |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | (1) binary versions of Singular for common hard- and software |
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| 16 | platforms in the files Singular-1.0.<platform>.gz where |
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| 17 | <platform> is, for example, 'linux', 'SunOS', etc. |
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| 18 | |
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[4d2aefb] | 19 | (2) The file Singular-1.0-share.tar.gz which contains the architecture |
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| 20 | - independent files (such as libraries written in the Singular |
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| 21 | programming language, and the Singular documentation). See the |
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| 22 | file README.share contained in this tar file for more information. |
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[4f8f94a] | 23 | |
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| 24 | (3) the file COPYING.bin containing the copying and license |
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| 25 | information. |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | Installing the Singular binaries |
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| 29 | ================================ |
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| 30 | In order to use Singular, you |
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[4d2aefb] | 32 | (1) need to obtain _all_ the three files mentioned above (i.e. obtaining the |
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| 33 | binary, only, is not enough!) |
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[4f8f94a] | 34 | |
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| 35 | (2) Uncompress the binary and install it at an appropriate place in |
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| 36 | your executable path (e.g., /usr/local/bin) |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | (3) Unpack Singular-1.0-share.tar.gz |
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| 39 | (a) in the directory /usr/local/, or |
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| 40 | (b) in another directory, say, $HOME/Singular, and set the environment |
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| 41 | variable SINGULARPATH to the subdirectory |
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| 42 | $HOME/Singular/share/Singular |
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| 43 | If you use the tcsh or csh shell, this can be accomplished by |
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| 44 | the command |
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| 45 | 'setenv SINGULARPATH $HOME/Singular/share/Singular'. |
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| 46 | If you use the bash, ksh, or sh shell, this can be |
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| 47 | accomplished by the command |
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[5b930a] | 48 | 'SINGULARPATH=$HOME/Singular/share/Singular;export SINGULARPATH' |
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| 49 | Furthermore, these commands should be put into your shell |
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| 50 | initialization file (e.g., $HOME/.tcshrc) |
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[4f8f94a] | 51 | |
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| 52 | Optional: |
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| 53 | (4) You may move the file singular.hlp contained in share/Singular to |
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| 54 | your info diretory (usualy /usr/local/info) and add the line |
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| 55 | * Singular: (singular.hlp). The Singular manual |
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| 56 | to the 'dir' file contained in your info directory. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | (5) You may print the Singular manual (contained in docs/singular.dvi) |
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| 59 | and tutorial (contained in docs/tutorial.dvi). |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | Overview of Singular |
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| 62 | ==================== |
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| 63 | Singular is a special-purpose computer algebra system for commutative |
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| 64 | algebra, algebraic geometry and singularity theory. The main features |
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| 65 | of Singular are: |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | * Computations in very general rings (polynomial rings, localizations |
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| 68 | of rings at a prime ideal, tensor products of rings) over many |
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| 69 | ground fields (rational numbers, mod p numbers, Galois fields, |
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| 70 | transcendental/algebraic extensions) and monomial orderings (all |
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| 71 | standard monomial orderings, including matrix orderings) |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | * Very fast standard (resp. Groebner) bases computations |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | * Polynomial factorization, resultant, and gcd computations |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | * Large variety of implemented related algorithm: FGLM, |
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| 78 | Hilbert-driven, Factorizing Buchberger; Minimal resolutions, |
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| 79 | Primary decomposition; Usual ideal theoretic operations; standard |
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| 80 | combinatorial algorithms. |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | * Efficient and flexible communication links based on the MP |
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| 83 | protocol and library |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | * Easy-to-use, command-driven user-interface |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | * Intuitive, C-like programming language |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | * Extensive libraries of procedures, written in Singular's |
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| 90 | programming language |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | * Written in C/C++. Available as binary program for common hard- and |
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| 93 | software platforms (including most Un*x variants, MS-DOG, MacOS) |
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[03bb04b] | 95 | Acknowledgments |
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| 96 | ================ |
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| 97 | Singular 1.0 is linked with the following libraries: |
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| 98 | readline-- The Gnu readline library (v. 2.0) |
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| 99 | C) Free Software Foundation |
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| 100 | gmp -- The Gnu Multiple precision library (v: 2.0.2) distribution |
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| 101 | (C) Free Software Foundation |
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| 102 | MP -- The Multi Protocol library (v: 1.1.2) distribution |
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| 103 | (C) Gray/Kajler/Wang; Kent State University |
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[5b930a] | 104 | factory -- The factory library (v: 1.2c) for polynomial factorization |
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[03bb04b] | 105 | (C) Greuel/Stobbe U of Kaiserslautern |
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[5b930a] | 106 | libfac -- The libfac library (v: 0.2.1) for characteristic set computations |
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[03bb04b] | 107 | (C) Mesollen U of Saarbruecken |
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| 108 | We would like to thank all authors of these who contributed these |
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| 109 | libraries. |
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[4f8f94a] | 111 | |
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| 112 | Distribution of Singular |
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| 113 | ======================== |
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| 114 | The newest version of Singular is always available by anonymous ftp |
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| 115 | from |
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| 116 | www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/Singular |
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| 117 | |
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| 118 | Binary versions of Singular for common hard- and software |
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[4d2aefb] | 119 | platforms are contained in the files bin/Singular-1.0.<platform>.gz where |
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[4f8f94a] | 120 | <platform> is, for example, 'linux', 'SunOS', etc. |
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| 121 | |
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| 122 | In general, Singular is only available as binary program. For |
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| 123 | exceptions, you may contact us at |
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| 124 | singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | Architecture - independent files (such as libraries written in the |
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| 127 | Singular programming language, and the Singular documentation) are |
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| 128 | distributed as Singular-1.0-share.tar.gz. See the file README.share |
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| 129 | for more information. |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | Documentation to Singular is distributed as: |
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| 132 | Singular-1.0.dvi.gz - Reference manual in dvi format |
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| 133 | Tutorial.dvi.gz - Singular tutorial in dvi format |
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| 134 | Singular-1.0.ps.gz - Reference manual in postscript format |
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| 135 | Tutorial.dvi.gz - Singular tutorial in postscript format |
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| 136 | singular.hlp.gz - Reference manual in Info format |
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| 137 | Singular-1.0.html.tar.gz - Reference manual in html format |
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[03bb04b] | 139 | The GMP library and the readline library is available at |
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| 140 | ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu or its mirrors. |
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| 141 | |
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| 142 | The MP library library is avialbale from mcs.kent.edu:/pub/MP/ |
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| 143 | For further information on MP, see also |
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| 144 | http://symbolicnet.mcs.kent.edu/areas/protocols/mp.html |
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| 145 | |
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| 146 | The factory and libfac library are available from |
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| 147 | www.mathematik.uni-kl.de:/pub/Math/ |
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[4f8f94a] | 149 | |
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| 150 | More information about Singular: Comments, Questions, Bug Reports |
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| 151 | ================================================================= |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | More and up-to-date information about Singular is always available |
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| 154 | from |
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| 155 | http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/Singular |
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| 156 | We very much welcome any comments, questions, and bug reports. Please |
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| 157 | contact us at |
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| 158 | singular@mathematik.uni-kl.de |
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| 161 | GOOD LUCK and ENJOY! Your Singular team. |
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