Splancs for Splus 4 - Windows NT/95

Here is a zip file of Splancs developed by Steven Reader from the original Splancs sources, that should work on Splus 4 with Windows NT 4, and probably on Windows 95 too.

Download SFLORIDA.ZIP

Here is an HTML version of the Readme file in the zip:

The files in this zipped archive (sflorida.zip) represent a modified version of the PC Splancs (v2) software written by Barry Rowlingson and Peter Diggle. It is meant as a direct replacement of the splancs.zip file that Barry Rowlingson distributes through his web pages.

The original splancs.zip file was found not to work under SPlus 4.0. This version (sflorida.zip) does. The modifications made to the original PC Splancs are:

  1. The originally distributed PC Splancs (splancs.zip) was written for SPLUS 3.* and the compiled code generates segmentation faults under SPLUS 4 and then crashes SPLUS. This new distribution has a recompilation of the distributed fortran source code using Watcom Fortran Compiler v11 and the COMPILE utility of SPLUS 4.0. This assures that the correct options are included for compilation. This new version has been tested under both Win95 and NT 4.0.
  2. Some of the Splancs functions have been "very slightly" rewritten for operation under SPLUS 4.0. Specifically, SPLUS 4.0 no longer automatically returns the result of the last assignment in do-loops. Therefore, some functions were rewritten to return variables explicitly using the SPLUS 'return' statement.
  3. A windows format helpfile (.hlp) has been created for use of PC Splancs and is made available as part of sflorida.zip.
To install this version of PC Splancs (v2) distributed as sflorida.zip, you follow the same instructions as for the original splancs.zip. In other words, under the library subdirectory of SPLUS, create a new folder called splancs. Copy sflorida.zip to this folder and then unzip. That's it....splancs will load using library(splancs) within SPLUS.

Please contact me if you have any problems with the installation of this version and please let me know if you successfully install as well. I have only made the above changes to enable installation of PC Splancs under SPLUS 4.0. Any questions on Splancs usage itself should go to Barry Rowlingson and Peter Diggle, to whom we should all be grateful for doing the real work of writing the code in the first place.

Steven Reader
Assistant Professor
Dept of Geography
College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL., 33620
USA

sreader@luna.cas.usf.edu

March 1st, 1998.

http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/
Last modified: Mon Mar 2 13:10:36 GMT 1998