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1.1       root        1: .TH ALTRAN 1 alice
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: altran \- language for algebraic manipulation
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B altran
                      6: [
                      7: .I option
                      8: ]
                      9: ... file ...
                     10: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     11: .I Altran
                     12: compiles the language described in the reference
                     13: via Fortran as an intermediate language.
                     14: The
                     15: .I files
                     16: may have names ending in
                     17: .BR .al ,
                     18: for Altran source,
                     19: .BR .f ,
                     20: for Fortan source, or
                     21: .B .o
                     22: for binary object files.
                     23: The output normally includes
                     24: a .f file for each .al file,
                     25: a .o file for each old or new .f file,
                     26: an executable file
                     27: .BR a.out ,
                     28: and a listing file
                     29: whose name ends in
                     30: .B .list 
                     31: for each .al file.
                     32: .PP
                     33: All the
                     34: .I options
                     35: of
                     36: .IR f77 (1)
                     37: and
                     38: .IR ld (1)
                     39: are accepted with the same meanings.
                     40: .PP
                     41: The executable
                     42: .BR a.out
                     43: file accepts two parameters.
                     44: One is of the form
                     45: .BI p= n
                     46: where
                     47: .I n
                     48: is the number of decimal digits of precision to be used for long
                     49: integers,
                     50: .if n .RI 18<= n <= 900,
                     51: .if t .RI 18\(<= n \(<=900,
                     52: default 18.
                     53: The other parameter is of the form
                     54: .BI w= n
                     55: where
                     56: .I n
                     57: is the workspace size in thousands of words,
                     58: .if n .RI 10<= n <=800,
                     59: .if t .RI 10\(<= n \(<=800,
                     60: default 50.
                     61: .SH FILES
                     62: .ta \w'/usr/lib/libal.a   'u
                     63: .nf
                     64: /usr/lib/altran        the compiler proper
                     65: /usr/lib/libal.a       library
                     66: fort.[789]     intermediate files
                     67: *.al
                     68: *.f
                     69: *.o
                     70: *.list
                     71: .fi
                     72: .DT
                     73: .SH SEE ALSO
                     74: .IR f77 (1), 
                     75: .IR ld (1)
                     76: .br
                     77: W. S Brown,
                     78: .I ALTRAN User's Manual,
                     79: Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ,
                     80: 1977
                     81: .SH BUGS
                     82: Run-time output is voluminous.

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