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This implementation is a compiled, tested, ready-to-use version of the NAG Fortran Library that is considered suitable for operation on the computer systems detailed below:
hardware: 32-bit Intel systems and compatible operating system: Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP Fortran compiler: NAGWAre FTN90 v2.191 or compatible
This implementation was produced at NAG Ltd., Oxford on the computing system detailed below:
hardware: Intel Xeon operating system: Windows 2000 Fortran compiler: NAGWare FTN90 v2.191 compiler options: /fixed C compiler: Salford scc v3.0
The entire NAG Fortran Library, Mark 20, was compiled with the default optimization.
This library has been tested using the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) and linear algebra routines (LAPACK) provided by NAG only. (See the Chapter Introductions for F06, F07 and F08 in the NAG Fortran Library Manual.)
The following shows the folder/file organization of the library materials as they will be installed.
|-- in.html
|-- un.html
|-- doc --|-- blas_lapack_to_nag.txt
| |-- nag_to_blas_lapack.txt
| |-- lic_agr.txt
|
| |-- nagbl.dll
| |-- naginst.dll
|-- bin --|-- key_inst.exe
| |-- key_rqst.exe
| |-- setup.txt
|
|-- lib --|-- nagbl.lib
flw3220d9l--|
|-- interface_blocks --|-- *.mod
|
| |-- source ---|-- ??????e.f
| |
|-- examples --|-- data -----|-- ??????e.d
| |
| |-- results --|-- ??????e.r
|
| |-- envvars.orig
|-- batch -----|-- envvars.bat
|-- nagex.bat
The following shows the folder/file organization of the PDF documentation materials.
Manual --|-- html --|-- mark20.html
| |
| |-- frontmatter --|-- foreword.html
| |
| |-- genint -------|-- *.html
| |
| |-- images -------|-- *.*
| |
| |-- indexes ------|-- *.*
| |
| |-- toc ----------|-- *.html
| |
| |-- libdoc.css
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|-- pdf ---|-- * ------------|-- *.pdf
compiled libraries:
nagbl.lib: 13.0 Mb
nagbl.dll: 9.5 Mb
interface blocks: 724 Kb
example program material: 13.2 Mb
batch files: 12 Kb
library documentation files: 68 Kb
PDF documentation files: 126 Mb
You should have Administrator privileges to install this software.
The CD contains an InstallShield SETUP executable file (.EXE) for the library implementation and a Windows Installer package for the manual (manual.msi). Installation of the manual is optional. It may be viewed from the CD or installed onto local disk as described in Section 4.2.
To install the Library insert the CD into your CD drive to display
the NAG Library Setup Menu. If the Setup Menu does not appear,
run
Installation of the Library requires a license key, which will be provided by NAG. This will either be a `Trial' key, which will allow you to try out the library for a limited period of time, or a `Fully Paid' key which enables use of the library indefinitely on a specific workstation. If you do not have a key, choose the option Request a license key and Installer will generate a request (usually saved in the file C:\NagKeyRqst.txt), which may be E-mailed or faxed to NAG (see Appendix). In return NAG will send you a valid license key.
Once in possession of a valid license key, begin the installation process again. You will be prompted for the license key. Once this has been entered the process will continue.
If you later wish to upgrade from a trial to a full license, again select
Request a license key as above, or else locate and
run the utility
Should you need to re-install the license key (for example to replace a
trial key), again, begin the installation process, now selecting
[Re]Install the license key , or locate and run the utility
Installation will create the shortcut
which is originally set to launch the command processor CMD.EXE. On Windows 98 and Me systems, the shortcut must be modified as follows (to modify a shortcut, right-click the Start button, and navigate to the shortcut, right-click it, then select Properties | Shortcut):
The shortcut may then be used to start a command prompt window with the correct environment variables to use the FTN90 compiler with the NAG Fortran Library.
You may wish to copy this shortcut from
To install the Library manual in PDF insert the CD into your CD drive
to display the NAG Library Setup Menu. If the Setup Menu does not display,
run
You may wish to move the PDF documentation files to the same location as that for other NAG products. You are encouraged to make them readily available to users, but in such a way that they are not generally accessible from outside your site.
If you do not already have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader for your platform, a free copy can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/. Please check this site for availability of a reader for your platform.
Please note that if you are using Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or earlier you might experience some problems when printing documents that contain non-standard characters, such as integral signs, square roots and large brackets. These characters will print correctly using Adobe Acrobat 5.0.
The HTML form of the Essential Introduction contains some mathematical characters that are displayed as question marks by releases of Netscape earlier than 6, but these are displayed correctly by Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer. They may also be viewed via the PDF.
If using Netscape, it might be necessary to re-install Acrobat to ensure that the Acrobat plug-in has been installed. If the plug-in has not been installed, Netscape may copy PDF files to a temporary folder, and then not be able to navigate from there.
Another shortcut will have been created if the Library Manual PDF was installed onto local disk. Users who access the software via a mapped drive or file server must also be informed of the location of these documents.
The Users' Note (doc\un.html) should be checked and amended as necessary (particularly Sections 3.1 and 5). Advice on accessing the library in Section 3.1 can be checked by running a few example programs following that advice; a suitable sample would be A02AAF, D01AUF, G05LFF and X03AAF. The installation can also be tested using the script nagex.bat. The Users' Note should then be made available to users directly, or be absorbed into local access information.
The following material should also be made accessible to users:
documentation files:
The FL20\Manual folder contains the online documentation. This should be made available to users, in addition to the following:
doc\blas_lapack_to_nag.txt doc\nag_to_blas_lapack.txtcompiled libraries - one or more of:
lib\nagbl.lib bin\nagbl.dllinterface block files:
interface_blocks\*.modexample program material:
examples\source\??????e.f examples\data\??????e.d examples\results\??????e.r batch\envvars.bat batch\nagex.bat
Note that the example material has been adapted, if necessary, from that published in the NAG Fortran Library Manual, so that programs are suitable for execution with this implementation with no further changes (but see Section 4.4.2 for comments about possible differences in results obtained). Making the example material directly available to users provides them with easily adaptable templates for their own problems.
The "example programs" for the routines in the F06 chapter are not typical example programs and they are not in the Library Manual. They are test programs, which are supplied to sites for use in an installation test of the Library. Some of them take much longer to run than other example programs. Routines which are equivalent to BLAS, are tested twice: once when called by their NAG F06 names, and once when called by their BLAS names.
Online documentation is bundled with this implementation. Please see Section 4.2.
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