Wolfram/Mathematica spams rPi victims.

If you post the link(s) you're having trouble with someone might be able to help.

Considering the author, I suspect nobody will bother ...

Wolfram uses a very deceptive & inovative [for me] method. Instead of allowing you to d/l material, to be RE-studied at your convenience, they use the full-power of current technology to lock you into LIVE tuition, where they have control of your every move. So eg. the live [always on connection] session would look like: In[1] 2 +3 Out [1]

*you* can't be helped, if you don't accept that their business-model is to just keep you tantelised: like putting the bred & milk at the back of the supermarket, so that you have to walk past all the bling-garbage hi-margen-products to get to the 'essentials'.

But here's a technical query: how to read *.nb files in non-X mode?

== TIA

Though ISTR you're allergic to PDF files too ...

Not familiar with "nb" format. Presumably graphics? Perhaps zgv?

Or fbida?

Perhaps ImageMagick convert to convert it to a more common format?

Mathematica Notebook file.

Unknown troll dog is trolling again. Nota bene (.nb) is a 'doze word processor

Nothing to do with this newsgroup.

Just ignore his posts, or better still, killfile him..

Maybe that, too, but they're also Mathematica notebook files. Mathematica is free on the RPi. If non-X, the Mathematica kernel is available as `wolfram' but I don't think it can open notebooks. However, it does accept all functions/calculations and can export graphics to file.

Highly recommended.

Well yes, apart from the fact that I'm stuck in the 3rd [going 4th] world: rPi is a project; not to be hi-jacked by propriete?ory interests.

OTOH pdf can be justified for ; eg. Wolfram. Did I mention the W/M shat-out my whole rest-of-the-month's inet quota? Now I see that my sweating-blood-to-collect W/M:tutorial dir has gone. Perhaps W/M's d/l contained a bomb.

Could we care less?

Please don't feed the troll. "Unknown"'s post are best ignored.

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Please don't feed the troll. "Unknown"'s posts are best ignored.

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OK, you suggest that W/M needs running-X to display *.nb ? Since I've put W/M on a separate SD [being such a monster], I'll need to sacrifice the keybrd-USB to view *.nb by running W/M in a card-reader

Fortunately, you can do keybrd operations via mouse with `wily`, if you pre-plan.

What "IT" does accept all functions/calculations and can export graphics to file? The minimal system can do that, even if it can't display graphics.

== TIA.

It's right there on there on their download page, "Free! (For non-commercial use) (?)" The circled ? leads to:

There's your license agreement. Among other things, it states "Certain functionality in the Product may require the Software to access collections of data available through external servers."

Sounds like they want to be able to communicate back to the mothership, and I doubt they've implemented RFC 1149/2549/6214.

Also on that page is a list of legal agreements for various Wolfram products, terms of use, privacy policies and the like.

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What you have written is perfectly correct. The way you have chosen to snip my contents is deceptive - like Wolfram. I just want to help rPi users avoid my mistake, as I would hope others would help me too.