MuPAD-FAQ-GENERAL_INFO

## General Informations

These FAQ documents should answer most of your questions. If you cannot find the information you need or your are interested in then please send your questions and comments to the MuPAD-webmaster by clicking on the letter symbol in every document's header. For technical questions use one of our developer email addresses. Searching for keywords can be done by clicking on the question-mark.

### Current release of MuPAD ?

Please refer to the README and FACTSHEET. New releases of MuPAD will be announced in News & Infos and also in some of our mailing lists. Also refer to the information page about the next MuPAD release.

### Further information on MuPAD ?

Please refer to the History of MuPAD and Who uses MuPAD. About twice a year we publish a new issue of the mathPAD journal with informations on computer algebra, new features in MuPAD and further interesting things. If there is enough time and money MuPAD is also present on some conferences and computer fairs.

### About MuPAD Development

Our public papers give a brief overview on concepts, tools and library packages of MuPAD. Also the developers are reachable by email, please refer to Who is Who.

### You found a bug in MuPAD ?

Please report it via email to MuPAD-bugs@uni-paderborn.de. What we need to know is:

- The name and number of your MuPAD release. - (e.g.: MuPAD 1.2.1)
- The name and release of your operating system. On problems with the user interface we also need informations on your windowing system and window manager. - (e.g: SunOS 4.1.3, X11R6, fvwm)
- Please send us an example that demonstrates the bug. If you got error messages from MuPAD or from your operating system, please append them in your email.

### MuPAD is not available for your system ?

Please send an email to MuPAD-webmaster and ask for it. Your email should contain the following informations:

- name and release of your hardware
- name and release of your operating system
- name and release of your window management system

Maybe this kind of machine or operating system is not available in our institute. If you can offer us a user login on such a machine for porting MuPAD, then please tell us.