This directory contains the contents of many of the other directories in the
form of compressed tar format archive files.  For example, 'genesis.tar.Z'
contains the complete directory tree of the most recent distribution of
GENESIS.  In most cases, the compressed tar files are in the directories which
contain the unarchived versions.

Don't forget to set the file type to "binary" when transferring ".Z" files.
Some systems will not do this automatically.

To determine the contents of an archive file, genesis.tar.Z for example, use

	zcat genesis.tar.Z | tar tvf - | more

To extract the contents of an archive file, genesis.tar.Z for example, use

        zcat genesis.tar.Z | tar xf -

Many of the larger files also exist in the more efficient gnu gzip format.  If
you have the gnu "gunzip" utility, you may get the smaller file
"genesis.tar.gz" instead and extract it with

         gunzip -c genesis.tar.gz | tar xf -

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Currently, the archives directory contains the following files:

Bug-fixes.tar.Z - contents of the Bug-fixes directory with replacement files
    to correct known bugs in GENESIS.

genesis.tar.Z/genesis.tar.gz and pgenesis.tar.Z/pgenesis.tar.gz - Links to the
    latest versions of GENESIS and PGENESIS.

pvm3.4.3.tar.gz - PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine), needed for PGENESIS

pvm.ug.ps.Z/pvm.ug.ps.gz - older versions of the PVM user guide

electrotonic.tar.Z - contents of utils/electrotonic, two C programs which can
    be used with GENESIS cell parameter files to calculate the electrotonic
    lengths of compartments in the cell.

mintest.tar.Z - illustrates the new automatic parameter search tools. (These
    scripts have not beeen converted from GENESIS 1, and are largely
    obsolete.)

mollusc.tar.Z - contents of libraries/channels/mollusc, containing
    example scripts with functions for creating voltage dependent ion
    channels typical of those found in molluscan soma.  The channels are
    implemented using the vdep_channel object with table-driven gates
    created with the tabgate object.  (Many of these have been replaced by
    newer files in the GENESIS distribution Scripts/neurokit/prototypes
    directory.)

patch.tar.Z - the patch utility for applying patches.

rallpack.tar.Z - the "Rallpack" set of benchmarks for neural simulators
    (This is also included in the GENESIS distribution)

traub94.tar.Z - the 1994 Traub et al. 64 compartment CA3 pyramidal cell
[Journal of Physiology, Vol.  481.1, p. 79 (1994)].

tritonia1.4.tar.Z - The (as yet unconverted) GENESIS 1.4 version of the
    Getting Tritonia simulation.

tutorials.tar.Z - contents of the babel/tutorials subdirectory tree.  These
    contain text files and GENESIS scripts for exercises and tutorials which
    guide the user through the process of constructing GENESIS simulations.
    (These are tutorials which have been created since the publication of
    "The Book of GENESIS".)