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stewart@cs.umd.edu (G. W. Stewart) writes:
> smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
> >Does there exist (over the net) Fortran or C code for decomposing real
> >skew symmetric matrices into canonical form?  I was a little surprised
> >when I looked at EISPACK's and LAPACK's indexes and failed to find
> >such an algorithm.
> 
> Here is what I have in my bibliography.  As you can see by the citations,
> these are secondary sources that I have not read myself.

Thank you very much for the information.  Actually, you preceded
yourself by about twelve hours: last night I obtained your
bibliography from netlib and used it to track down Ward and Gray's
algorithm in ACM-TOMS.

Apparently, the ACM doesn't distribute these old algorithms anymore,
so I had to perform a journal-to-ASCII conversion with our OCR scanner
(and edit and debug for a few hours).  So, I have this program now, it
works great, and I will provide it to anyone else who wants it (I
think(?) this is okay by ACM rules).

Steven Smith