This directory contains zip archives of executable versions
of the perplex programs and documents. The programs have been
compiled without optimization and should run on any system
running windows95 or windowsNT. If you wish to have an optimized
version of the programs contact me and i will make one available.

If the executable files provided here do not run on your system
you may be able to copy versions that work from either Stefano
Poli or Daniele Castelli (see perplex homepage). Daniele Castelli
also maintains an interactive graphics tool (vertexview) for 
viewing the output from Perple_X.

Because of the limitations of DOS some of the Perple_X
file names have been changed from the names given in the
various forms of documentation, the following is a list
of which files you will find in which archives:

Zip Archive Perp_Docs.zip:

 *.doc    - these files are the "README" files for specific 
            applications, utilities, and documentation, they 
            are not formatted and are easier to read with a
            font such as courier.
 README   - this file.
 sin*.ps  - postscript files for a review of phase diagram principles.
            see Document.doc.
 tut*.ps  - postscript files that comprise the tutorial. see
            Document.doc.

Zip Archive ibmpc_no_opt.zip:

 *.exe    - Perple_x programs, compiled without optimization. These
            should be ok for pentium pro processors, for other 
            architectures it may be advisable to obtain optimized
            binaries. These are console programs and it is probably
            easiest to run these from a "Command prompt console".
            These programs must be executed in the same directory as
            any data file used by the program. See the tutorial, 
            perplex.doc, and examples.doc.
 epi.ps   - postscript file necessary for psvdraw.
 pro.ps   - postscript file necessary for psvdraw.  
 ps2ai.ps - ghostscript filter to convert psvdraw native postscript
            to adobe illustrator format, new versions of adobe 
            illustrator and corel can import native postscript (i.e.,
            the graphical output from psvdraw) directly.
 in*.dat  - input files for vertex for the examples described in 
            examples.doc
 examples - a directory containing annotated output files and terminal
            dialog for the examples described in examples.doc. these
            files are in a subdirectory so that they will not be
            over-written (a word?) if you run vertex with one of the
            example input files (see above). Note the names of many
            of the input and output files have been shortened.

 any other Perple_X files must be copied from the appropriate source
 directory as indicated on the perplex home page:
 http://www.perplex.ethz.ch/perplex.html