Unbundling the Software Distribution

The code is distributed as a tar file med_ax.YRMN.tar.gz YRMN refers to the year/month of release date.

In order to extract the code, the file should be moved to an appropriate directory. Next the tar file will need to be uncompressed and the library extracted using the commands

gunzip med_ax.YRMN.tar.gz
tar -xvf med_ax.YRMN.tar

	The med_ax library contains the following directories/files

			      med_ax
	
	Examples    INSTALL    Test    bin    src

	(The file INSTALL contains these instructions.)


A)		Preliminary Note

	As we frequently find ourselves with several versions of the 3dma
	executable present, compiled for different architectures, we have
	adopted the convention that the names of executables involved with
	running the 3dma code have an architecture identifying string
	appended. The string to be appended can be chosen by the user;
	we employ obvious choices such as `sun', `sgi', `ibm'.
	For purposes of this discussion, we shall use the string `sun'.

	The affected executables are:

		stripcomm_sun

		3dma_sun

The following descriptions on Compiling, and Testing the installation are found in the file med_ax/INSTALL.