This message announces the availability of JACAL release jacal-1c8. JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program. JACAL can manipulate and simplify equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices of single and multiple valued algebraic expressions containing numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic differential, and holonomic functions. JACAL is written in Scheme and works with Scheme implementations which support the SLIB Scheme Library. The SCM Scheme implementation (written in C) is available with JACAL. SCM runs on Amiga, Atari-ST, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Windows, Unix and similar systems. JACAL is free software and part of the GNU project. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Documentation and distributions in several formats are linked from JACAL's home page: Links to distributions of JACAL and related softwares are at the end of this message. -=-=-=- jacal-1c8 news: Details at From: Kris Katterjohn * anti-diff.scm (integrate): Check and handle "novalue?". * builtin.scm: Fixed missing quotes in error messages. -=-=-=- JACAL is available from: Also available as RPM: Also available as MS-Windows installer: SLIB is a portable scheme library which JACAL requires: Also available as RPM: Also available as MS-Windows installer: SCM is a small Scheme implementation under which JACAL will run. SCM source is available from: Also available as a binary RPM: A previous version is available as MS-Windows installer: Programs for printing and viewing TexInfo documentation (which JACAL has) come with GNU Emacs or can be obtained via ftp from: