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+LPIC++ 1.3 SOURCE CODE DISTRIBUTION
+===================================
+
+ LPIC++ is a one-dimensional relativistic electromagnetic
+ Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for simulating the interaction
+ of laser light with plasma.
+ You will find the complete documentation in pdf format in
+ directory 'lpic-*/doc/' after unpacking LPIC++.
+ LPIC++ is written in C++ and is supposed to run on any
+ Unix platform like Linux, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, etc.
+ It has been tested and used extensively under AIX.
+
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+============
+
+ The parallelized version of LPIC++ requires one of the
+ following packages. If you want to run lpic as a single process
+ only, you can ignore this section.
+
+ - PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine), "a software system that
+ enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used
+ as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource".
+ Homepage: http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
+ Download source: http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html
+ PVM's source code needs slight modifications in order to
+ compile on Mac OS X. A modified package is available from
+ http://hpc.sourceforge.net
+
+ - LAM/MPI, an open-source implementation of the Message Passing
+ Interface specification (www.mpi-forum.org).
+ Homepage and Source: http://www.lam-mpi.org
+ LAM/MPI is also available as binary Debian, rpm, Fink and
+ Apple Mac OS X packages.
+
+ LPIC++ was used from 1994 to 1997 under AIX with pvm3.2.6 and
+ pvm3.3.11.
+
+
+INSTALL
+=======
+
+ 1) Unpack the archive:
+
+ Copy 'lpic-*.tar.gz' to the directory where you would like
+ to install LPIC++, change to this directory and type
+
+ 'gunzip lpic-*.tar.gz'
+ 'tar -xvf lpic-*.tar'
+
+ Change to directory 'lpic-*'.
+ Installation is then done in three GNU steps:
+
+ 2) ./configure
+
+ run "./configure --help" for options
+ typical configurations:
+ ./configure
+ ./configure --enable-pvm
+ ./configure --enable-pvm \
+ --with-pvm-include=/usr/local/include \
+ --with-pvm-lib=/usr/local/lib
+
+ 3) make
+
+ 4) (sudo) make install-exec
+
+ Installation has been tested so far on
+ - Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4
+ - Cygwin
+ - Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7
+
+
+DISTRIBUTION
+============
+
+ Change to the pic directory and type "make dist".
+
+
+USAGE AND DOCUMENTATION
+=======================
+
+ Read 'mpq225.pdf' in directory lpic-*/doc.
+
+
+FEEDBACK
+========
+
+ Please send any feedback to kemp@physics.unr.edu or pic@lichters.net