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8.6 PV-WAVE

8.6.1 - Availability
8.6.2 - Support
8.6.3 - Information
8.6.4 - User groups

8.6.1 Availability

General information on availability can be fond on WWW at:

http://www.vni.com

Supplier

The UK Academic contact is Nigel Brown:

Visual Numerics Ltd.
New Tithe Court
23 Dictate Road
Slough
BerkshireSL3 7LL

Tel: 01753 790600
Fax: 01753 790601

Email: n.brown@vniuk.co.uk

Platforms

PV-WAVE CL is available as part of the Visual Numerics Ltd. CHEST agreement and is available for the following platforms:

Convex Unix
DEC VAX/VMS
DEC Ultrix
HP 9000 HP-UX
IBM RS6000 AIX
SGI Irix
SUN SunOS + Solaris

PV-WAVE "Personal Edition" is available for the PC under Windows 3.1 but is not included in the CHEST agreement. The full terms and conditions of the PV-WAVE CL CHEST agreement are detailed below, including costs.

Costs

This is a 5 year CHEST Agreement which commenced on the 23rd March 1994 and terminates on the 22nd March 1999. Institutions may participate at any time during the period; however they will be bound until the end of the Agreement. The Agreement covers both the PV-WAVE family of products and the IMSL C and FORTRAN numerical and graphical libraries. New platforms will be provided within the charges if and when commercially available from Visual Numerics.

The Options for pricing are as follows:

Please note that this information was correct at the time of printing.

8.6.2 Support

Provision

Visual Numerics Ltd. are a small organisation and support for PV-WAVE CL is currently restricted to Telephone contact for those nominated as CHEST technical contacts (see directory below). Email access to Visual Numerics Ltd. is possible but it is preferred that this is used for general information requests only (see directory below).

Costs

8.6.3 Information

Manuals for PV-WAVE Command Language

PV-WAVE CL Applications Guide - Free Code and Sample Applications: Describes the online application examples provided with PV-WAVE and provides sample code in the book for other examples. Also contains a useful worked interactive session example which is a useful way of getting started.
PV-WAVE Command Language Guide to Advanced Rendering Library: Provides description and reference guide to the Advanced Rendering Library, which is a group of procedures and functions that provide additional data visualization capabilities for the PV-WAVE Command Language, of which it assumes an existing knowledge.
PV-WAVE Command Language Overview: Describes the basic features of the Command Language with many examples.
PV-WAVE Command Language Reference: Consists of a Reference Guide to all the functions, procedures, keywords and system variables in the Command Language. Approx 650 pages.
PV-WAVE Command Language User's Guide: Description of all the facilities in the Command Language. Similar size to the Reference Manual.
PV-WAVE Command Language Unix Installation Guide: For the person who has to install the PV-WAVE Command Language product, this describes how to do it on the Unix operating system.

Manuals on the PV-WAVE Point & Click product

Getting Started with PV-WAVE Point & Click Motif Version: Introduces the Motif version of the PV-WAVE Point & Click product.
Getting Started with PV-WAVE Point & Click OPENLOOK version: Introduces the OPENLOOK version of the PV-WAVE Point & Click product.
PV-WAVE Point & Click User's Guide: Provides a detailed description of PV-WAVE Point & Click.
Installing PV-WAVE Point & Click: Provides instructions on installing PV-WAVE Point & Click on Unix workstations.

PV Software Licensing

For the person installing Precision Visuals software, this guide is concerned with unlocking the software.

On-line Information

On-line help is provided within PV-WAVE CL in the form of a procedure called HELP, and a help system. A separate help utility is available outside of PV-WAVE; "man" pages are not provided.

The help procedure can be used with a number of command line parameters to return status information with regards to the current session and variables in use. The help system can be accessed to obtain on-line information with regards the functions and procedures available both within PV-WAVE CL and outside via a help utility.

Network Information Services

There is a WWW site for VNI Inc.,:

http://www.vni.com

Information Email: info@vniuk.co.uk

There are two Mailbase lists:

chest-pvwave@mailbase chest-imsl@mailbase

8.6.4 User groups

There is not a formal PV-WAVE User Group but occasional user meetings are arranged by Visual Numerics.

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