Unix Users
You should be able to unpack the source files by typing the
following two commands
These two commands will create a new directory, ppmpi_c
or ppmpi_f, containing all the source code for the
programs.
If one or both of the commands uncompress/tar is unavailable,
the programs gzip and Gnu tar are freely available
from the Free Software
Foundation. Once you've installed these programs, you
should be able to unpack the software with
One user reported that his browser was changing the names of the
files when they were downloaded. Be sure that the file names end
in ``.Z''. Both uncompress and gunzip expect this at the end of
files they're trying to decompress.
Windows Users
The latest version of WinZip will unpack compressed
tar files. A free evaluation version can be downloaded from
the WinZip Home Page.
Macintosh Users
The latest version of StuffIt Expander will unpack
compressed tar files. It can be freely downloaded from
Aladdin Systems.
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Parallel Programming with MPI
Last updated January 26, 2000