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	   This is the READ.ME for the SGEFA/SGESL package.

	SGEFA is a   gaussian  elimination (with  partial    pivoting)
package written in C (single precision).  It is a translation from the
FORTRAN LINPACK routines of the same names.  The matrix data structure
was modified  to account for   the conventions of   C.  That  is,  all
elements of the  matrix are referenced  from 0 instead  of  1 and  the
matrix is stored as a series of vectors (which  are the columns).  The
matrix data  structure is defined in ge.h.   The user must supply  the
storage for the columns  of the matrix by  calls to the  standard UNIX
memory allocation routine MALLOC.  See  the matgen routine in driver.c
for  an example.  The necessary BLAS  routines are included in blas.c.
Easy access to the matrix elements can  be had by looking  at the elem
and pelem macros defined in ge.h.

	A sample  output (from a  Sun-3/160   workstation with FPA) is
included in the file sgefat.out

	Send comments, suggestions and bug-reports to:
		Dr. Mark K. Seager
		Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.
		PO Box 808, L-316
		Livermore, CA 94550
		(415) 423-3141
		seager@lll-crg.Arpa