This is Soas.

Soas was written by Christophe Leger and improved by Vincent Fourmond.

Copyright 1999-2008  by Christophe Leger, 
          2007, 2008 by Vincent Fourmond

Redistribution and modifications are possible under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, see COPYING for details.

More information can be found online at:

http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip06/software.html


INSTALLATION:

Most users will only need to run:

./configure

make

sudo make install

This way, soas will end up in /usr/local/bin. Look at the INSTALL file for more
information.

PREREQUISITES:

  * first of all, you need a C, a C++ and a Fortran compiler; if you don't
  have, I suggest you use gcc, gfortran and g++, to be found there:
  
  http://gcc.gnu.org/
  
  * you need Perl, as well. It really should be installed on all Unix-like
  platforms, but if that isn't the case, you can get it from

  http://www.perl.org/
  
  * then, you will need Gildas, that can be found there:

  http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/
  
  (or, to go directly to the download area)

  http://www.iram.fr/~gildas/dist/index.html

  For Gildas, you will need X11 development libraries, and some others
  as well (check the installation notes inside the package). For
  compiling Gildas, use gfortran (rather than g95).
  
  * if you want automatic completion, and anything looking like comfort
  when you use Soas, you really should have the development files for
  readline (version 5, at least)
  
  * if you want fits with arbitrary functions, you should install SCalc, to
  be found there:

  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1477

  (look at the bottom of the page for the download link). Get the most
  recent !

  Make sure you get at least version 0.2.1, as earlier version have a bug
  that will prevent soas from seeing all the parameters in an expression
  to fit, if there is a negation.

  * one final note before starting configure: as it depends on locate
  to find where Gildas libraries are installed, you must run 
  
  sudo updatedb
  
  before starting configure, unless you want to pass by hand the location
  of the Gildas libraries. (see ./configure --help).

Note that, if all the features were found, the end of ./configure's
output should be something like:

configure: Soas will be compiled with the following features:
configure:  * Readline for automatic completion
configure:  * Readline history: command history
configure:  * Scalc: fits with arbitrary functions

You can know which options were used to compile the soas you're running
by launching the command
Soas>configuration 
Soas (version 3.6.4) was compiled with the following options:
  * using readline for commands edition/completion
  * commands history
  * using 'links' as online help browser
  * using scalc for arbitrary fits




BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS

Try your luck at the web page for Soas,

http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip06/software.html

Please, try, and try hard, before asking questions. 

Remember, however, that his program is distributed in the hope that it
will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
the GNU General Public License for more details.