SLADOC: SLATEC documentation program
B. Helland, N. Imani · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1987
SLADOC is an interactive program which provides on-line documentation for SLATEC routines. SLATEC is a public domain library of over 1000 mathematical routines initiated by a technical exchange committee of the New Mexico Laboratories of Sandia, Los Alamos, and the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. The routines in SLATEC solve problems in linear algebra, solve differential equations and least square problems, perform numerical integration, interpolation and Fourier transforms, find roots of nonlinear equations, and calculate values of elementary and special functions. SLATEC includes routines from LINPACK, EISPACK, DEPAC, FISHPACK, and QUADPACK. SLADOC has been designed to take advantage of the tree organization of the documentation included in the SLATEC package. At each level, there are a number of categories, each of which is partitioned into several subcategories. The leaves of the tree (the lowest level of the hierarchy) are the SLATEC routines with their descriptions. The main page of SLADOC displays part of the SLATEC documentation tree on the screen. All the nodes (categories) visible on the screen can be selected (with either the mouse or the arrow keys) in order to view their definitions, or to traverse the tree. SLADOC allows the user to search for a routine in threemore » different ways. If the routine name is unknown, the user may either traverse the appropriate branches of the tree until the node ''routines'' is reached, or use the keyword page to select the appropriate keyword. If a routine name is known, then the command option ''search for a routine'' can be used to go directly to that node. SLADOC is designed to be user-friendly, so the user should be able to run SLADOC just by using the on-line help facility.« less