The file gish.tar.Z is an L-Z compressed UNIX tar archive that contains
all of the files splayed beneath the "explode" subdirectory.  FTP this
file to your local machine in binary mode, uncompress it, then untar it.
VMS compress and tar utilities are posted on this machine beneath the
/toolbox/vms_util directory.  A single UNIX command pipeline can be used
to unpack the archive:  zcat gish.tar | tar xf -

This code is used to build a personal function library, libgish.a, which is
in turn used to make the libdfa.a library and the BLAST application programs.
Edit the Makefile as necessary.

The sys directory contains source code that tends to be highly platform-
dependent.  On UNIX systems, the sys directory is a "soft link" to the
sys.unix directory.  The VMS code tidbits have not been tested--caveat emptor.

Warren Gish
gish *AT* ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
(301) 496-2475
September 15, 1991

Modification history:

January 18, 1994
Eliminated mem_zero, mem_cmp, mem_chr, etc.
Added misc/width.c

August 13, 1993
Eliminated the setrlimit() calls from misc/mproc.c for multiprocessing
platforms that use threads.

July 20, 1993
Cleaned misc/mfile.c.

April 6, 1993
Many new additions, including support for Solaris 2.2 threads and SGI IRIX
multiprocessing.

March 29, 1992
Added "suffix" parameter to misc/basename().

March 31, 1992
Added misc/wrap.c

April 1, 1992
Added function fct_expm1() in file fct_expm.c, for accurate calculation
of the quantity exp(x)-1 for all values of x, both large and small.

April 29, 1992
Added function fct_log1p() in file fct_log1.c, for accurate calculation
of the quantity log(1+x) for all valid values of x, large and small.

May 19, 1992
Added function fct_ntakek() (combinatorial "N take K") in file fct/fct_ntk.c.

May 20, 1992
Added function sys_whoami() in file sys/sys_who.c for UNIX.

June 2, 1992
Added fct_gamma() to fct_gamm.c

September 21, 1992
Fixed bug in misc/vfgets.c.  Added functions getfasta() and putfasta()
in misc/fasta.c, openfile() in misc/files.c, and fatal() in misc/fatal.c.

November 5, 1992
Added misc/shmutil.c and misc/mfile.c for UNIX System V shared memory support.