READ.ME

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            SLALIB Library - C version
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The SLALIB/C library consists of a number of C source files (one
per callable SLALIB routine) and two .h files.  A few other items
are also included: the present READ.ME file, some .BAT files
for PC use, a makefile, and a script pack.sh which packages the
library as a script which, when executed, unpacks into separate
modules.

The package is documented in a LaTeX file, sun67.tex, which is not
included here.  It is supplied with, and describes, the Starlink
Fortran implementation of the SLALIB library.

SLALIB/C, which was privately developed and is privately supported,
is distributed by the author personally.  Secondary distribution
without express permission is prohibited;  the prohibition also applies
to modified forms of the source code (whether produced by hand or by
automatic translation, and whatever the language of the result), to
linkable object libraries, and to versions supplied with "front-end"
or "wrapper" code that preserves the general-purpose character of the
library.

Bona fide researchers affiliated to non-profit institutions should note
that SLALIB/C is made available to them free of charge (under the
auspices of the Starlink Project but not through the normal Starlink
software-distribution procedures) and that their entitlement to use
SLALIB/C implementations which they have received from the author to
build, use and distribute (free) applications software is guaranteed in
perpetuity.  These privileges are expressly not granted to commercial
organizations or to for-profit activities conducted by research
institutions;  such use may attract license fees and/or royalties at
the author's discretion.

The C version is copyright P.T.Wallace.  All rights reserved.  The
usual disclaimers apply.


Patrick Wallace

Tpoint Software
19 Sutton Wick Lane
Drayton
Abingdon
Oxon OX14 4HH UK

voice/fax +44 1235 531198

29 November 1996

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