Obtaining and Unpacking the Distribution


Up: Contents Next: Documentation Previous: Quick Start

sowing can be obtained by anonymous ftp from the site ftp.mcs.anl.gov. Go to the directory pub/sowing and get the file sowing.tar.gz. This file name is a link to the most recent verstion of sowing. Currently it is about 1 Megabyte in size. The file is a gzipped tar file, so it may be unpacked with

    gunzip -c sowing.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
If you do not have gunzip, but do have uncompress, then you must get sowing.tar.Z instead, and use either
    zcat sowing.tar.Z | tar xvf - 
or
    uncompress sowing.tar.Z 
    tar xvf sowing.tar 
This will create a single directory called sowing, containing in various subdirectories the entire distribution, including all of the source code, some documentation (including this Guide), man pages and the sowing environment.In particular, you should see the following files and directories:
{ COPYRIGHT}
Copyright statement. This code is free but not public domain. It is copyrighted by the University of Chicago.
{ Makefile.in}
Template for the Makefile, which will be produced when you run configure.
{ README}
Basic information and instructions for configuring.
{ aclocal.m4}
Used for building configure from configure.in; not needed for most installations.
{ bin}
Home for executable files like pstogif and pstoxbm.
{ configure}
The script that you run to create Makefiles throughout the system.
{ configure.in}
Input to autoconf that produces configure.
{ docs}
Documentaiton, including this Installation Guide and the users guides.
{ include}
The include libraries.
{ lib}
The machine-dependent libraries, after they are built.
{ man}
Man pages for MPI, MPE, and internal routines.
{ ref}
Contains Postscript versions of the man pages.
{ src}
The source code for the portable part of sowing. There are subdirectories for the various tools.

If you have problems, check the sowing home page on the Web at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ gropp/sowing . This page has pointers to lists of known bugs and patchfiles. If you don't find what you need here, send mail to mpi-bugs@mcs.anl.gov.



Up: Contents Next: Documentation Previous: Quick Start