From: ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,sci.math.num-analysis
Subject: Diffs to Index of free C or C++ source code for numerical computation
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:59:21 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
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Keywords: source code, numerical statistical scientific computation

Here is a list of the new entries this month:

+ Name: Cfortran
+ Name: LASSPTools
+ Name: nrutil
+ Name: rlab
+ Name: taranto-1.0.shar.Z

On to the full rcsdiff -c -b:

*** /tmp/T0a22063	Thu Jan 21 18:59:19 1993
--- freec.index	Thu Jan 21 18:58:09 1993
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*** 14,20 ****
  The index is biased towards fields I work in.
  Please send me suggestions, corrections and improvements.
  
!         -Ajay Shah, ajayshah@usc.edu
          $Date: 1992/12/01 20:46:44 $
  
  
--- 14,20 ----
  The index is biased towards fields I work in.
  Please send me suggestions, corrections and improvements.
  
!         -Ajay Shah, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
          $Date: 1992/12/01 20:46:44 $
  
  
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*** 54,59 ****
--- 54,75 ----
  Version: ??
  Comments:  Excellent. very fast. possible problems with unalloc call. 
  
+ Name: Cfortran
+ Where: zebra.desy.de [131.169.2.244]
+ Systems: VAX VMS or Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, CRAY, Apollo and HP9000.
+ Language: C, FORTRAN 
+ Author: Burkhard Burow, burow@vxdesy.cern.ch, University of Toronto
+ Version: 2.5
+ Description: A set of macros (cfortran.h = 1000 lines) allowing function calls to be made from C to FORTRAN and vice-versa.
+ Comments: Good compact way of calling functions without translating. Easy to use.
+ 
+ Name: LASSPTools
+ Where: /pub/LASSPTools at helios.tn.cornell.edu
+ Systems: Unix
+ Description: Data manipulation and entry tools for Unix.
+ Author: Various people in the Cornell physics department
+ Comments:  A diverse set of tools by various people at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell.  Most useful for a set of X-windows applications and UNIX filters for interactive data manipulation. For instance, there's a mouse-operated track-ball that outputs a rotation matrix describing the orientation of the b
+ 
  Name: SPARSE
  Where: in sparse on Netlib
  Description: library for LU factorisation for large sparse matrices 
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*** 82,88 ****
  Name: cephes
  Author: Stephen L. Moshier, moshier@world.std.com
  Description: extremely good library for numerical computation in C.  Emphasis on special functions (of very high accuracy), but also contains useful code for matrices, eigenvalues, integration, ODEs, complex arithmetic, chebyshev approximation.
! Where: in pub/C-numanal on usc.edu, should soon appear on Netlib too
  Version: 2.2, June 1992
  
  Name: dcg.shar
--- 98,104 ----
  Name: cephes
  Author: Stephen L. Moshier, moshier@world.std.com
  Description: extremely good library for numerical computation in C.  Emphasis on special functions (of very high accuracy), but also contains useful code for matrices, eigenvalues, integration, ODEs, complex arithmetic, chebyshev approximation.
! Where: the many files in directory cephes on netlib
  Version: 2.2, June 1992
  
  Name: dcg.shar
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*** 130,135 ****
--- 146,152 ----
  Where: from ftp.physics.mcgill.ca
  Description: C-based fitting and data manipulation program (works on top of gnuplot).  Gives you a C-like interpreted script language.
  Systems: Unix only.
+ Comments: FYI, you can pick up gnuplot from pub/gnu on prep.ai.mit.edu
  
  Name: gaut
  Where: in general on Statlib
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*** 250,262 ****
  Comments: random number generator, 4.3bsd Unix library routine
  
  Name: newmat
! Where: volume26 of comp.sources.misc
  Language: C++
  Systems: Unix, MS-DOS (Borland C++)
  Description: a very thorough matrix class
  Author: Robert Davies (robertd@kauri.vuw.ac.nz)
! Comments: Version 4 has problems with gnu g++, request v5 from author
! Version: v4
  
  Name: nlmdl
  Where: in pub/arg/nlmdl at ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (128.109.212.20)
--- 267,278 ----
  Comments: random number generator, 4.3bsd Unix library routine
  
  Name: newmat
! Where: volume34, issue 107 of comp.sources.misc
  Language: C++
  Systems: Unix, MS-DOS (Borland C++)
  Description: a very thorough matrix class
  Author: Robert Davies (robertd@kauri.vuw.ac.nz)
! Version: v7, 11 Jan 1993
  
  Name: nlmdl
  Where: in pub/arg/nlmdl at ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu (128.109.212.20)
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*** 273,278 ****
--- 289,300 ----
  Description: archive of programs in nonlinear dynamics, signal processing
  Author: various, contact person is mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
  
+ Name: nrutil
+ Where: pub/incoming/nrutil.shar.Z on hilbert.math.ksu.edu or usenet/alt.sources/articles/6772.Z on wuarchive.wustl.edu
+ Description: Appendix B of Numerical Recipes 2nd ed, a group of vector/matrix initialisation function which NR has standardised on.
+ Author: Numerical Recipes is by William Press et al, posted on alt.sources by James C. Hu (jxh@math.ksu.edu)
+ Version: 8 Dec 1992
+ 
  Name: nurbs.tar.Z
  Where: in /pub/misc/unix/nurbs/nurbs.tar.Z on unix.hensa.ac.uk
  Author: W. T. Hewitt et.al.
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*** 359,364 ****
--- 381,390 ----
  Author: Mike Hosea (mhosea@sun.cis.smu.edu)
  Version: Sep 26 14:04:23 1992
  
+ Name: rlab
+ Where: pub/alpha/RLaB/rlab-0.30.tar.Z on mizar.docs.uu.se
+ Description: interpreted language for numerical computation, under GPL
+ 
  Name: robot
  Description: a scientific graph plotting and data analysis package
  Where: in pub/astrod on astrod.astro.psu.edu (128.118.147.28)
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*** 396,405 ****
  Author: Bill Davidsen (davisen@crd.ge.com)
  Version: v1.9, 15 Aug 1989
  
! Name: spline
! Where: in misc on Netlib
! Description: splines under tension, dressed as a Unix tool
! Author: J. R. Van Zandt and A. K. Cline
  
  Name: submit1
  Where: in jcgs on Statlib
--- 422,432 ----
  Author: Bill Davidsen (davisen@crd.ge.com)
  Version: v1.9, 15 Aug 1989
  
! Name: spline29.zip
! Where: in mirrors/msdos/c on wuarchive.wustl.edu
! Description: Interpolation using splines under tension, dressed up as a Unix tool
! Author: James. R. Van Zandt
! Version: v2.9, 21 Nov 1992
  
  Name: submit1
  Where: in jcgs on Statlib
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*** 407,412 ****
--- 434,443 ----
  Author: David Eberly, eberly@cs.unc.edu
  Version: May 1992
  
+ Name: taranto-1.0.shar.Z
+ Where: in prog/libraries on nuri.inria.fr (128.93.1.26)
+ Description : portable, accurate FP to decimal conversion.
+ 
  Name: totinfo
  Where: in volume7 of comp.sources.misc
  Description: info statistic and chi-square for 2-D contingency tables
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*** 413,424 ****
  Date: August 1989
  
  Name : vfsr
! Where: file vfsr.Z in opt on netlib
  Description : very fast simulated reannealing: performing adaptive global optimization on multivariate nonlinear stochastic systems
  Language: either K&R or ANSI C
  Authors: Lester Ingber (ingber@alumni.caltech.edu) and Bruce Rosen (rosen@ringer.cs.utsa.edu)
  Comments: some preprints from ftp.umiacs.umd.edu in pub/ingber directory
! Version : 6.2, 30 Nov 1992
  
  Name: vspline
  Where: in gcv on Netlib
--- 444,455 ----
  Date: August 1989
  
  Name : vfsr
! Where: file vfsr.Z in opt on netlib, and in general on statlib
  Description : very fast simulated reannealing: performing adaptive global optimization on multivariate nonlinear stochastic systems
  Language: either K&R or ANSI C
  Authors: Lester Ingber (ingber@alumni.caltech.edu) and Bruce Rosen (rosen@ringer.cs.utsa.edu)
  Comments: some preprints from ftp.umiacs.umd.edu in pub/ingber directory
! Version : 6.4, 19 Jan 1993
  
  Name: vspline
  Where: in gcv on Netlib
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*** 518,523 ****
--- 549,556 ----
  P. G. Hamer                     P.G.Hamer@bnr.co.uk
  Alan Magnuson                   awm@osc.edu
  David Rapoport                  actize@garnet.berkeley.edu
+ Peter Fraenkel                  pnf@pwcm.com
+ Martin-D. Lacasse               isaac@physics.mcgill.ca
  
  Of course, we owe infinite gratitude to the authors themselves, for
  making their work available in the public domain.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c