How to use maple at home to make reports ======================================== Do you work at home, with only a slow modem or standard DSL? Then you may still do graphics at home, although it is less intuitive and a longer process. The process will be explained for MS-Windows. It is similar for Mac OS-X and Linux. What you need: irfanview, or a similar free graphics program, that allows you to view, crop, resize, resample and convert graphics files. Putty, for free secure ftp and secure telnet [sftp, ssh]. Use Putty to connect to the university account, a usual setup requiring site "xserver.math.utah.edu". Set the default user name to yours in the "Connection --> Data" section of Putty. When you "save" the setup under a name like "math", then each use of putty will require only a password. You can customize in putty the colors and the font + font size, then save the setup again. Start maple [not xmaple] in the putty connection window. Type in the code below to see how the interface works. There are line-edit shortcuts and review of your typing [up-arrow]. Use the putty-supplied sftp.exe application to download your "plot.jpg" image, then double-click on the downloaded file to start irfanview. A usual sfpt.exe command line is sfpt.exe username@xserver.math.utah.edu Open Office and MS-word can be used to put together the maple code and the images. The result is a pad of paper not different from what you get by printing a worksheet from maple. All code entered into the maple interface can be saved as a file, then accessed again either at school or at home. b1:=1:b2:=2:m1:=1:m2:=1: de1:=diff(x1(t),t,t)=-(b1+b2)/m1*diff(x1(t),t)+b2/m1*diff(x2(t),t); de2:=diff(x2(t),t,t)=b2/m2*diff(x1(t),t)-b2/m2*diff(x2(t),t); dsolve({de1,de2},{x1(t),x2(t)}); p:=subs(_C1=1,_C2=1,_C3=1,_C4=1,%); p1:=convert(p,list); X1:=unapply(rhs(p1[2]),t); X2:=unapply(rhs(p1[1]),t); plotsetup(jpeg,plotoutput=`plot.jpg`,plotoptions=`width=400,height=320`); plot([X1(t),X2(t)],t=0..10,thickness=3); plotsetup(default);