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Windows installation

Get :
ftp://ftp-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/xcas/xcaszip.exe
double-click on the file, this launch the self-extracting archive, it will propose to unarchive xcas in the same directory as the file xcaszip.exe. Do not accept this choice, put instead C:\ so that xcas will be unzipped in the directory C:\xcas. If you unzip xcas in another directory, you will have to modify the files xcasen.bat and runxcas.en to reflect the correct paths (see below). You can make a global install by adding the xcas directory to the PATH variable. For example, if you have unzipped xcas on the harddisk D: directory Maths
xcasen.bat: set PATH=%PATH%;d:\Maths\xcas
runxcas.en: export XCAS_ROOT=/cygdrive/d/Maths/xcas

For printing you need to install LATEX, see e.g. http://www.fptex.org/.

Online help will be displayed on Windows NT or 2000 or XP using Internet Explorer, you can modify this in the ie.bat file.



giac documentation written by Bernard Parisse