Re: SSP 360

Jim Klein <jameseklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The SSP is available as a free download from my web site at
www.ecalculations.com

Thanks. While I don't expect to actually use it, there is some nostalgia
value in it for me. I used to use some of those routines in my early
Fortran work about 30 years ago - probably closer to 35 I guess, since
we moved to a CDC in '73, though I still used UCLA's IBM a little later
than that. I used to use DHARM, for example, for FFTs. I probably even
have a copy of it stashed away somewhere, but I couldn't off-hand say
where.

But hmm... a Windows executable off the net? Oh dear! Well, I haven't
fired up the copy of virtual PC on this system for a long time. The
Virtual PC isn't connected to the net, and I don't really care if it
gets trashed, so...here goes... seems to unpack ok into the source
files, which look familliar (well - signs of line termination
translation issues somewhere along the way, as I see a blank line after
every real line, but that's easily fixed).

Oh yes. After going through running it in Virtual PC, I belatedly
recalled that self-extracting executables like that can often/usually be
unzipped with the unzip command, without running the executable. (And I
can even do that directly in OS X). Guess it has been a long time since
I worked with that stuff or I'd have thought of it right away. A quick
check to satisfy my curiosity verifies that, yes, plain old unzip works,
with no need to have fussed with or worried about running the
executable.

Thanks again.

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