The Mathematica Journal Electronic Supplement

Volume 6, Issue 4, Fall 1996

Special Considerations


Version 3.0 Notebooks

The notebooks in this supplement are in Mathematica 3.0 format. 
They cannot be opened with earlier versions of Mathematica. 

MathReader programs for opening Version 3.0 notebooks on Macintosh,
NeXT, X, and Windows machines are available from the Wolfram Research
Web site:  http://www.wolfram.com/mathreader.


SetDirectory

Remember to use

SetDirectory["pathname to files in electronic supplement"]

before you try to execute the code from an article or load a package
using << filename.m. Also look at the labeling of the In and Out
statements in the article. If the statements restart their numbering
from 1 then the assumption in the article is that Mathematica has
restarted. You can accomplish this dynamically, i.e. without quitting
and restarting Mathematica, by using the CleanSlate  package
distributed in the electronic supplement of Volume 3 Issue 4.


Windows Users

Most authors have developed their notebooks using front ends on the
Macintosh or NeXT computer. The electronic supplement is also created
on a Mac. The process of creating the supplement for Windows/DOS is
semi-automatic. Files are simply copied with the usual
linefeed/carraige return translations performed. File names are
shortened by hand to 8 characters in an attempt to make the names as
readable as possible. This means that packages which attempt to read
other packages or which have names in excess of 8 characters will
almost never work as expected. BE PREPARED FOR LOTS OF ERROR
MESSAGES. The remedy is usually straight forward. When loading a
package, i.e. << PackageName, do not use the name printed in the
article or shown in the notebook. Take a look at the name of the file
in the directory where the electronic supplement resides and use that
name instead. In cases where a package loads another package, you
will also have to edit the package, by hand, to use the name of the
file distributed in the electronic supplement.