Distribution of mathematical software via electronic mail

  • Authors:
  • Jack J Dongarra;Eric Grosse

  • Affiliations:
  • Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

A large collection of public-domain mathematical software is now available via electronic mail. Messages sent to "netlib@anl-mcs" (on the Arpanet/CSNET) or to "research!netlib" (on the UNIX® network) wake up a server that distributes items from the collection. The one-line message "send index" causes a library catalog to be sent by return mail.