Software Details

To facilitate learning, software that is formatted for both IBM- and Macintosh-compatible personal computers containing all of the text's FORTRAN source code listings can be downloaded from the AIAA Web site as described on p. 747. As a special feature for those who work in the MATLAB or True BASIC languages, duplicate files, which are the MATLAB and True BASIC equivalents of the FORTRAN listings, also can be found on the AIAA Web site.

The FORTRAN source code should run as is with either Version 6.0 of the Absoft Power Macintosh Pro FORTRAN compiler or Version 4.3 of the Absoft FORTRAN compiler for IBM-compatible machines. Use of different FORTRAN compilers, in either the Macintosh- or IBM-compatible world, may require some slight modification of the source code. The MATLAB source code should run as is using MATLAB 5.2 on the Macintosh or Version 5.0 on IBM compatible computers. The True BASIC source code should run as is with the Bronze edition on the Macintosh or with the Silver edition on IBM-compatible computers.

The naming conventions for the source code files in each language are slightly different. The FORTRAN naming convention is CxLy.F, where x corresponds to chapter number and y corresponds to listing number. In other words, C4L2.F corresponds to FORTRAN Listing 4.2 of the text (i.e., Chapter 4, Listing 2). The MATLAB naming convention is the same for both Macintosh- and IBM-compatible machines (C4L2.M). In addition, the True BASIC naming convention is also the same for both Macintosh-...