Documentation for IMSL's CTT

The document IMSL Computational Technology Toolkit contains an overview of CTT and information on its use that should be read prior to reading this document.

Local UNIX configuration information

Essential information about the local setup and use of CTT at the University of Delaware is in the Getting Started with CTT: Setting up your UNIX Account document. In addition, the document X Windows Configuration Setup for Using CTT provides UNIX account configuration suggestions to simplify access to the CTT documentation tools described below.

Documentation on the current version of CTT

The on-line CTT documentation is a collection of hypertext-linked Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files containing the entire CTT manuals. After setting up your UNIX account as described in the Getting Started with CTT document, you can view the CTT documentation by typing

  acroread $CTT_DIR/help/imsl.pdf

If you have configured your UNIX account as suggested in X Windows Configuration Setup for Using CTT, you can instead type

  cttdoc

If you are not using an X Windows server (e.g., an SunRay terminal or a Microsoft Windows system running Exceed), you can view the documentation by downloading the pdf files. Use ftp to transfer these files from the $CTT_DIR/help directory to your PC's hard drive, and use a local copy of Acrobat Reader to view the files.

Additional documentation available on the Web

Visual Numerics, Inc. provides the additional online documentation Online Documentation Index at their corporate website. Look for manuals on "IMSL Thread Safe Fortran Numerical Library", and "IMSL C Numerical Library Version 5.0".

The NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) web site provides another valuable information tool, the Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) server. The GAMS server helps you find documentation and examples for all FNL routines by name. It also has a decision tree that guides you to appropriate routines from CTT as well as other mathematical and statistical libraries.

Finally, HotGAMS, NIST's Java interface to GAMS, is accessible from any system that has a Java appletviewer installed. For example, from Strauss, you would type

appletviewer http://gams.nist.gov/HOTGAMS/HotGAMS.html &

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