Last modified: 15:28:55, Fri 06 Jul 2001 UTC
XAlcove is a program for doing calculations with modular tilting modules for SL3. These are the many calculations that were the foundation for at least the conjecture in my doctoral dissertation.
XAlcove is available but without documentation. This software does not have any practical use whatsoever, but it may be of interest to an estimated two or three people (optimistically!) around the world who are wondering how I did this.
Since the work was done on my university's HP-UXes and my Linux system at home (and some of the early work were done on Solaris boxes during a stay at the Isaac Newton institute in Cambridge, England), it had to be portable, in some sense.
Thus, the program can only be compiled with GNU compilers (linking to the GNU C library) and requires lesstif if you don't have Motif (it was a very early version of lesstif, so it doesn't really take advantage of everything that Motif can offer -- anyway, I'd probably have used GTK today -- not that there is anything wrong with lesstif; but Motif is, IMHO, not as nice as some of the alternatives).
xalcove.tar.bz2 (43k)
There are some bugs in there that I never really bothered to fix; the most obvious being the scrollbars than don't always readjust properly. It is not very user friendly either, since it only ever had one user. And I kept changing things according to the direction of the direction of my research.
And, mind you, I'd have used a larger indentation today. Four spaces good, eight spaces good, two spaces bad.