NEEDS 3.1 ? (fwd)

Dave Michelson wrote:
>
> More recently, NEEDS has been totally re-written for UNIX and the X
> Window System. The on-line documentation is "Approved for public
> release; distribution is unlimited" and can be browsed at
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Numerical Electromagnetic Engineering Design System (NEEDS 3.1)
> Workstation User's Manual
>
> J. C. Lam, J. W. Rockway, L. C. Russell, D. T. Wentworth
>
> November 1995
>
> http://manta.nosc.mil/~ratliff/td/2870/nradtd2870homepg.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

A few people have asked me how to obtain a copy of NEEDS 3.x.
Well, that's my question, too.

My only reasons for suspecting that it might be available are:

  (1) NEEDS 1.x and 2.x were made available to the user community
      through ACES at a reasonable cost, and,

  (2) the NEEDS 3.X documentation was approved for public release
      and unlimited distribution.

NEEDS 3.x is based on NEC-4 so there are a few built-in restrictions
on distribution there. I don't know whether the NEEDS graphical shell
can be easily modified to run with NEC-2 or not.

In any case, NOSC and ACES are well represented on NEC-List so I hope
we'll soon hear something from somebody who knows.

-- 
Dave Michelson                             University of British Columbia 
davem@ee.ubc.ca                              Radar Remote Sensing Group