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NETLIB(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual NETLIB(7) NAME netlib - retrieve public-domain software SYNOPSIS mail research!netlib DESCRIPTION Netlib retrieves files by electronic mail from a set of libraries of public-domain software, mostly mathematical. Netlib responds to mail messages containing one or more of the requests described below. send index send [ option ... ] file ... [ but not file ... ] from library ... Retrieve files from specified libraries. The lists all li- braries and gives other helpful information. A file is deliv- ered together with all files it depends on from its library, un- less option is present. Files are retrieved in upper case for requests written in upper case. whois names Retrieve addresses and telephone numbers from a database of ap- plied mathematicians. find word ... [ from library ... ] Retrieve one-line index descriptions by content from all or any directories. mailsize size Limit the length of mail messages to size. The size may be given in kilobytes, e.g. 100k. For information about a particular library, retrieve its which lists routines with one-line descriptions, or its The library contains ma- chine constants and basic linear algebra modules that are needed with many other libraries. EXAMPLES send index from eispack What's in eispack? send directory from eispack Get file names and sizes. send dgeco from linpack Retrieve a routine and all it depends on. send list of dgeco from linpack How big would that retrieval be? find cubic spline What does netlib have about `cubic' or `spline'? NETLIB(7)