Email Interface to the Netlib Repository

Netlib email addresses

The Internet address netlib@netlib.org refers to a gateway machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This address should be understood on all the major networks through the normal Domain Name System name resolution. If for some reason that machine is not responding, try netlib@research.att.com, a machine at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

For access outside the United States, you may want to use one of the repositories that mirror the UT/ORNL repository. See Appendix A for a list of these other Netlib sites.

Request syntax

A valid Netlib email request has a message body that is of one of the following basic forms:

send index
send index from <library>
send <file(s)> from <library>
find <keywords>
whois <name>
mailsize <size>

Here are examples of the various kinds of requests.

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To get the master index for netlib:

send index

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To get the full index for a library:

send index from eispack

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To get a particular routine and all it depends on:

send dgeco from linpack

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To get just the one routine, not subsidiaries:

send only dgeco from linpack

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To get dependency tree, but excluding a subtree:

send dgeco but not dgefa from linpack

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To just tell how large a reply would be, don't actually send the file:

send list of dgeco from linpack

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To search for somebody in the SIAM membership list:

whois gene golub

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To do a keyword search for Netlib software:

find cubic spline

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To do a bibliographic search:

find schumaker from approximation

find aasen from linalg

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To convert Fortran to C: execute f2c print *,'hello, world' end

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To set the chunk size used for reply:

mailsize 100k

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(optional) End of request:

quit