shaginaw@NEUMANN.SQUIBB.COM (05/09/90)
For Bruno Pape:
I don't know of any public-domain software from IMSL or NAG. In
both cases I believe you must pay for a developer's license to
distribute software that uses their subroutines.
Your customer should try NETLIB, from Argonne National Labs (USA).
To get an index of the software available by anonymous ftp, send mail
to "netlib@mcs.anl.gov". This mail will be read automatically, and so
its contents must be precise; your message should read "send index".
Most, but not all, of IMSL's routines have an equivalent in NETLIB.
-- Rich
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===============================================================================mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) (05/09/90)
In article <9005082108.AA23342@neumann> shaginaw@NEUMANN.SQUIBB.COM writes: > > Your customer should try NETLIB, from Argonne National Labs (USA). >To get an index of the software available by anonymous ftp, send mail >to "netlib@mcs.anl.gov". This mail will be read automatically, and so >its contents must be precise; your message should read "send index". >Most, but not all, of IMSL's routines have an equivalent in NETLIB. > Richard J. Shaginaw Internet Address: shaginaw@squibb.com PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE --- Note that the address given above for netlib is no longer valid. It might work today, but it is scheduled to be shut off any time now. Netlib moved (following Jack Dongarra) several months ago to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The correct address for netlib is now netlib@ornl.gov This is at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. A minor point --- software is *NOT* available by anonymous ftp! Software is sent to you by *return internet mail*. There is another netlib setup on uucp at research.att.com. I can't guarantee it, but I think that its uucp address is att!research!netlib. Netlib is designed to provide *quick* availability to *small* pieces of software - like individual routines from LINPACK, EISPACK, etc.... The developers/maintainers of netlib request that if you want the *WHOLE* library, that you try to find someplace to purchase a tape with the whole source. I believe that IMSL sells a tape with the LINPACK and EISPACK source (though I could be imagining this). Netlib is a wonderful resource, and everyone doing numerical programming should know about it! -- John D. McCalpin mccalpin@vax1.udel.edu Assistant Professor mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu College of Marine Studies, U. Del. mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu