version 0.1 11/08/2004 Initial release of the package. Includes the two main programs "multipht" and "solvepht", plus a test Perl script "selftest.pl". The current code uses a somewhat fragile set of routines to handle the matrix algebra in "solvematrix.c". It will fail on some -- but not all -- machines if compiled with option "-O2", which is the default in many cases. I have arranged the distribution so that the compiler flags are forced to be "-g -Wall" to prevent this from happening. The long-term solution is to replace these routines with more robust code, perhaps from the GNU Scientific Library.