DASH, Release 1.0, June 2008.
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Dash is a program for extracting states from molecular dynamics
simulations.

Dot is a program that regenerates pseudo-trajectories from
Dash-compressed trajectories.


The software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (see the file COPYING for details), and can be downloaded from

    http://www.port.ac.uk/research/cmd/

in the following formats

    dash-x.y.tar.gz
    dash-x.y.tar.bz2
    dash-x.y.zip

Use one of the commands

    gzip -cd dash-x.y.tar.gz | tar xf -
    bzip2 -cd dash-x.y.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
    unzip dash-x.y.zip

as appropriate to unpack the archive into a directory 'dash-x.y'.


The programs are written in standard C++; any recent C++ compiler
should be able to build them.  Dot uses a pseudo-random number
generator from the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) so this must be
installed before compiling Dot. Pre-built GSL packages are available
for the major GNU/Linux distributions. Both the GSL header files
(often in a development package) and the GSL libraries (often in a
runtime package) are required. The GSL can also be obtained from
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/. To build the programs, edit the
'Makefile' to suit your C++ compiler, change the 'CPPFLAGS' and
'LDFLAGS' variables to point to the GSL header files and libraries if
these are not installed in a standard location, then run 'make'.


To install the programs, just move the executables 'dash' and 'dot' to
somewhere in your path.


The files 'dash.html', 'dash.pdf' and 'dash.info' contain
documentation in the indicated formats.