University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group

/share/b/pub/lp_solve.help

								  Apr 11 2016

CONTENTS

	lp_solve
	Documentation

lp_solve
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  lp_solve (http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/) is a Mixed Integer Linear 
  Programming (MILP) solver, originally from the Eindhoven University of 
  Technology.  
  
  The command line program (accepts input files) is installed for CS170 on 
  the Instructional UNIX (Linux) computers.  For names and locations of the 
  computers, please see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#labs
  
  The command line program can be run as /share/b/bin/lp_solve.
  For example:

    /share/b/bin/lp_solve -S3 ~cs170/lp_solve/test.inp
    /share/b/bin/lp_solve -help

  To display graphical output, your desktop computer must be running 
  an XWindows manager.  For help, please see 
  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#xwindows

Documentation
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  Documentation is on-line and can be accessed from an Instructional UNIX
  system using commands such as

    firefox file:////home/ff/cs170/lp_solve/doc
    firefox http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/

  A number of related packages are described in

	http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/distribution.htm

  and are available from

	http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/download.htm

  Please report problems to inst@eecs.berkeley.edu


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