gbutils -- Utilities Overview 

Giulio Bottazzi (bottazzi@sssup.it), December 2014

gbutils is a set of command line utilities for the manipulation and
statistical analysis of data. Data fare usually read from standard
input in ASCII format and results are printed in ASCII format to
standard output.

These utilities are completely written in C. They have been tested
(and used many many times) on different Linux distributions and should
compile and run, in principle, on any Unix platform. No other OSes
have been tested.

Please notice that these programs have been written for personal use,
and are distributed under the GPL license (see the file "COPYING") in
the hope they could be of help to other people, but without any
implied warranty.

Please report bugs to <gbutils@googlegroups.com>. The package home
page is http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html

The most up-to-date information and documentation about the gbutils
package can be found in its home page. A few documents are however
distributed with the package. 

For Linux installation instruction and a brief introduction to the
library, see "intro". More technical details are provided in
"overview". The document "cygwin_install" describes how to install the
package on Windows machines, using the cygwin emulation framework. The
file 'gbget' is a brief tutorial on using the eponymous program, a
sort of Swiss knife for the manipulation of data file, which is often
essential for an effective usage of the utilities in the package.

These documents are distributed in ASCII (.txt extension) and PDF
format.

The package has several dependencies, see the online documentation or
'intro" for further information.

Package files list
==================

 COPYING	GNU Public License
 README		this file
 intro          brief introduction and installation tutorial
 gbget          short tutorial on the use of gbget
 cygwin_install Cygwin installation instructions 
 overview       technical overview
 INSTALL	generic installation instructions
 NEWS		list of package modifications
 ChangeLog		""	""
 Makefile.am	input file for automake
 aclocal.m4	input file for autoconf generated by aclocal
 configure.ac	input file for autoconf
 configure	configuration file generated by autoconf
 Makefile.in	input file for configure generated by automake
 config.h.in	input file for configure
 install-sh	utility generated by automake
 missing			""	""
 mkinstalldirs		""	""
 test.dat       demo file used in README.gbget
 test.dat.gz    same file, compressed

 tools.c	source code for general purpose functions
 tools.h	prototypes of functions in tools.c
 gbbin.c	source code for gbbin program
 gbdist.c	source code for gbdist program
 gbhisto.c	source code for gbhisto program
 gbmave.c	source code for gbmave program
 gbstat.c	source code for gbstat program
 gbker.c	source code for gbker program
 gbnear.c	source code for gbnear program
 gbhisto2d.c	source code for gbhisto2d program
 gbker2d.c	source code for gbker2d program
 gbmodes.c	source code for gbmodes program
 gbkreg.c	source code for gbkreg program
 gbinterp.c	source code for gbinterp program
 gbget.c	source code for gbget program
 gbtest.c	source code for gbtest program
 gbfun.c	source code for gbfun program
 gbkreg2d.c	source code for gbkreg2d program
 gbquant.c	source code for gbquant program
 gblreg.c	source code for gblreg program
 gbglreg.c	source code for gbglreg program
 gbnlreg.c	source code for gbnlreg program
 gbnlqreg.c	source code for gbnlqreg program
 gbnlprobit.c	source code for gbnlprobit program
 gbnlmult.c	source code for gbnlmult program
 gbrand.c	source code for gbrand program
 gbenv.c	source code for gbenv program
 gbhill.c       source code for gbhill program
 gbgcorr.c      source code for gbgcorr program
 gbacorr.c      source code for gbacorr program
 gbxcorr.c      source code for gbxcorr program 
 gbfilternear   source code for gbfilternear program
 gaussian_gbhill.c      gaussian module for gbhill
 exponential_gbhill.c   exponential module for gbhill
 paretoI_gbhill.c       pareto type 1 module for gbhill
 paretoIII_gbhill.c     pareto type 3 module for gbhill

 multimin.c     wrapper around GSL minimization routines
 multimin.h     multimin header file
 
 lib/getline.c	       GNULib portability files
 lib/getndelim2.c      "      "           "
 lib/getsubopt.c       "      "           "
 lib/Makefile.am       "      "           "
 lib/strchrnul.c       "      "           "
 lib/getline.h	       "      "           "
 lib/getndelim2.h      "      "           "
 lib/getsubopt.h       "      "           "
 lib/Makefile.in       "      "           "
 lib/strchrnul.h       "      "           "
 m4/getndelim2.m4      "      "           "
 m4/gnulib.m4	       "      "           "
 m4/ssize_t.m4	       "      "           "
 m4/getline.m4	       "      "           "
 m4/getsubopt.m4       "      "           "
 m4/onceonly_2_57.m4   "      "           "
 m4/strchrnul.m4       "      "           "

