How to Download MOPs

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CAVEAT! this package needs MAPLE 8; it will NOT work with earlier versions of the software. It also works with MAPLE 9, and since the folks at MapleSoft have promised to make their software backwards-compatible, it will probably work with all subsequent versions of MAPLE.


For those interested in statistical computations and/or hypergeometric functions, I also recommend Plamen Koev's Software page. 

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Owners of Maple 8 or above : first and foremost, you have to download the zipped file containing the MOPs archive; the file is located here. Once you have the file, instructions depend on whether you are a Unix or Windows user. Together with the file, we recommend that you also download the paper in which we describe and analyze the package, and which can serve as Release Notes. The paper is located here. 

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Unix   users: place the downloaded file in your home directory. Unzip the file using the command

        unzip mops.zip

This should create a new MOPS directory in your home directory; the MOPS directory contains a subdirectory entitled Help\ Files and 4 files, named maple.hdb, MOPS.ind, MOPS.lib, and MOPS.mws . The last file contains an archive of all the procedures we wrote for MOPs.

Return to your home directory, and create a .mapleinit file; in it you should write

        new_libname:=`homepath/MOPS`;
        libname:=libname, new_libname;

with the understanding that `homepath` represents the path of your home directory. For example, if your home directory has a path `home/usr/vis/joesmith/' then the first of the two lines above should read

        new_libname:=`home/usr/vis/joesmith/MOPS';

Save the .mapleinit file. You're almost done! The only thing remaining is to call the package (in Maple) using the command

        > with(MOPS);

each time you need to use it.

To make sure that the installation was successful, we suggest that you open Maple, type in

        > with(MOPS);

at the prompt, and then type in

        > jack(a, [3], 2);

the answer should be

                        m_{3} +   3 m_{2,1} / (1+2a)                .

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Windows users:  place the downloaded file in your C:\  directory (or in a more appropriate place of your choosing).

Unzip the file using Winzip; this should create a new C:\MOPS directory in your home directory; the MOPS directory contains a subdirectory entitled Help\ Files and 4 files, named maple.hdb, MOPS.ind, MOPS.lib, and MOPS.mws . The last file contains an archive of all the procedures we wrote for MOPs. 

•  VARIANT   1. In the ~\Maple\bin folder, create a .mapleinit file,  in it you should write


                                                new_libname:=`C:\\MOPS`;
                                                libname:=libname, new_libname;

                                        or, if you have placed the downloaded file in a lower directory, like C:\maple-work, then the first of
                                        the two lines above should read

                                                new_libname:=`C:\\maple-work\\MOPS';

                                        Save the .mapleinit file. You're almost done! The only thing remaining is to call the
                                        package (in Maple) using the command

                                                > with(MOPS);

                                        each time you need to use it.
 
 

• VARIANT 2.  For some unknown reasons, the instructions in VARIANT 1 might not work if you are

                            are using Windows XP. In that case, if you wish to use the package, you have to include
                            the new pathway in the Maple window, each time you want to use the package, as follows:


                                                           > new_libname:=`C:\\MOPS`;
                                               > libname:=libname, new_libname;
                                               > with(MOPS);

                                       or, in case you have placed the downloaded file in a lower directory like `C:\\maple-work', then the first of
                                       the three lines above should read

                                                > new_libname:=`C:\\maple-work\\MOPS';

To make sure that the installation was successful, we suggest that you open Maple, type in

        > with(MOPS);

or, if VARIANT 1 was unsuccessful, type in

        > new_libname:=`C:\\MOPS`;
        > libname:=libname, new_libname;
        > with(MOPS);

at the prompt, and then type in

        > jack(a, [3], 2);

The answer should be

                        m_{3} +   3 m_{2,1} / (1+2a)                .