Nick gave permission to distribute SCPACK in letter. CAP is joint with outsider, so code can be interpretted as coming from him. Anyway, it was released to Koiller at Berkeley officially by Bell Labs. From ttacs1.ttu.edu!kkent Wed Jan 24 12:07:46 1990 Date: 24 Jan 90 11:06:00 CST From: "Pearce, Kent" Subject: RE: netlib/conformal/gearlike To: "ehg" Thank you for your note. I looked the warnings and errors which you listed. Let me comment about them. First the warning when you compiled gldrv.f. I looked at line 893, which is a conditional branch into an IF clause. The VAX compiler here apparently does not object to such a construction, but I can see where another compiler might. I have modified the control structure so that is now alternately formulated and I am sending a copy of the revision to your mailbox. I don't know what the problem was with the error which occured when you compiled disspla.f. Unless, it was a problem of the sort that VAX FORTRAN requires that string variables be passed by reference and UNIX FORTRAN expects them to be passed by value. Best Wishes Kent From ips.ethz.ch!mhg Mon Jul 9 08:48:14 PDT 1990 From: "Martin H. Gutknecht" Subject: netlib Hi Eric! As I may have mentioned to you several years ago I had a Swiss NSF project for writing some software for numerical conformal mapping. I ultimately found a highly qualified Englishman, David Hough, who was willing to come to Zurich for two years and write such a code. Now the two years have nearly passed, and he has just finished a very remarkable code, based on Symm's method, but allowing regions with corners. The results obtained are excellent, although sometimes the method is a little bit slow. The question we have now is whether it is conceivable to put this code after a period of beta-test distribution on netlib. The problem may be that the code is too large for reasonable email transfer; it is currently nearly 700 KByte, and even if the LINPACK, EISPACK, and QUADPACK routines called were deleted, CONFPACK still seems to be larger than 500 KBytes. Hence, should we at all consider electronic distribution (either by netlib or by us)? Thanks for your advice. Best regards, --- Martin ------m mhg@ips.ethz.ch Tue Jul 10 09:53:16 EDT 1990 From-: Eric Grosse ehg@research.att.com 908-582-5828 To-: mhg@ips.ethz.ch Date-: Tue Jul 10 09:49:55 EDT 1990 Subject: netlib Martin, That's great news about CONFPACK. Sure, I'd be delighted to get it for netlib. As you say, 500KB is rather large for mail. But networks will improve with time and anyway for selected large files, I am already allowing ftp access. So yes, please do send the package (and to save space, do remove whatever 'pack routines are already available elsewhere in netlib). Best wishes Eric ------m mhg@ips.ethz.ch mtx005@cck.cov.ak.uk Tue Aug 28 13:42:51 EDT 1990 From-: Eric Grosse ehg@research.att.com 908-582-5828 To-: mhg@ips.ethz.ch mtx005@cck.cov.ak.uk Date-: Tue Aug 28 13:41:56 EDT 1990 Subject: confpack Thanks for sending me the User Guide; it is nicely done. I'm happy to install your code whenevery you're ready. Best wishes Eric ------m mhg@ips.ethz.ch Mon Mar 18 09:06:21 EST 1991 From-: Eric Grosse ehg@research.att.com 908-582-5828 To-: mhg@ips.ethz.ch Date-: Mon Mar 18 09:04:30 EST 1991 Subject: confpack Has there been any progress on releasing the CONFPACK codes? As I recall, when we discussed it last summer, your feeling was it was rather large. I'd love to get the package anyway and will see if I have any ideas on compressing it enough for email distribution. Best wishes Eric From ips.ethz.ch!mhg Mon Mar 18 15:19:55 +0000 1991 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 15:19:55 +0000 Originator: mhg@ips.ethz.ch From: "Martin H. Gutknecht" To: Subject: CONFPACK Dear Eric: So far we have had just a couple of requests for CONFPACK, and, of course, we do not know how many of those people actually used the code. We have now just prepared IBM diskettes for those who are not on the networks (and, amazingly, there are still quite a few), so about six or seven such people will be addressed tomorrow. About the same number of folks (at most) retrieved the code from our anonymous ftp account given below, which should be the appropriate way for you to get the code. Please tell me what you think of it. Today's good news received from the Swiss NSF is that there will be new funds available for the project, starting from Oct. 1991, for one and a half years. Best regards, ---- Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your interest in CONFPACK. We can send you the code on an 1/4 inch cartridge tape or a 1/2 inch reel tape, using either ANSI standard or UNIX tar format. But we have now the code also on an anonymous account on our SUN system, from which you may be able to retrieve it by ftp. You could try: ftp 129.132.17.1 Name: ftp Password: ftp cd confpack get README get pargen % The preprocessor program PARGEN get confpk % The CONFPACK subroutine library get linpk % The LINPACK subroutines called by CONFPACK get quadpk % The QUADPACK subroutines called by CONFPACK get r1mach % The machine constants routine from PORT get drives % 10 example driver programs cd sources get confpk.lst % A List of the CONFPACK subroutines get linpk.lst % A List of LINPACK subroutines called get quadpk.lst % A List of QUADPACK subroutines called quit Good luck! --- Martin Gutknecht .