HysSym0.9a is a hysteresis simulation package for java. The full java package name is "edu.cornell.lassp.houle.HysSym", and the tar file will unpack into the directory "src/edu/cornell/lassp/houle/HysSym". HysSym0.9a requires the "edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack" package which you can obtain from http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~houle/local.java/archives. to unpack: (in Unix) % cd ~ % zcat HysSym-source.tar.gz | tar -xf - to compile: (in Unix) % mkdir ~/classes % setenv CLASSPATH ~/classes % cd ~/src % javac -O -d ~/classes edu/cornell/lassp/houle/HysSym/*.java % javadoc javadoc -d ~/doc -author -version -depend edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack edu.cornell.lassp.houle.HysSym if you have any comments or questions please write ph18@cornell.edu; particularly, we are interested in your experiences compiling HysSym on other platforms.