Installing the full system requires about 150 Megabytes of disk space (more if you optionally remake). The demonstration version of Ptolemy, "Ptiny," only requires 12 Megabytes of disk space. All versions requires at least 8 Megabytes of physical memory.
For the latest information on Ptolemy, get the Frequently Asked Questions list. Send electronic mail to
ptolemy-hackers-request@ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu
with the message: get ptolemy-hackers.FAQ
in the body (not the subject) of the message.
You may also send any questions on obtaining Ptolemy to the email address: ptolemy@eecs.berkeley.edu
. If you have questions about using or enhancing Ptolemy, you should use the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. See
"Ptolemy mailing lists and the Ptolemy newsgroup" on page A-2 for details.
A.2.1 Access via the Internet
Ptolemy is available without support via Internet FTP. Source code, executables, and documentation are all available on the FTP site atftp://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu
.
This site contains the latest release of Ptolemy, patches to the current release, a Postscript version of the Ptolemy manual, the demonstration version of Ptolemy, Ptolemy papers and journal articles, as well as the archives for the mailing list.
ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu
.
anonymous
; give your full email address as the password.
/pub
directory: cd pub
README
file there.
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/misc/ptolemy
The notation above means log into ftp.iij.ad.jp
and then cd to /pub/misc/ptolemy.There is also an FTP mirror in France at:
ftp://chinon.thomson-csf.fr/mirrors/ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/
The Ptolemy WWW page contains information about Ptolemy, demonstrations of Ptolemy programs, access to the Ptolemy FTP site, and a hypertext version of the Ptolemy Documentation.There is a WWW mirror of our site in France at:
http://chinon.thomson-csf.fr/ptolemy
pub/ptolemy/papers
directory. These documents are all in the Postscript format and require a Postscript printer or viewer. The paper overview.ps.Z
gives an overview of Ptolemy and would be of particular interest to new users.