Availability, Acknowledgments, Author Info

PIKT's homepage is: http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt, where you will find not only the distribution package but also complete on-line documentation, sample configuration files, a comprehensive test suite (with over 600 validation tests), and other useful items.  PIKT is also available for download at a number of ftp sites.  pikt-users and pikt-workers mailing lists have been formed.  Operating systems now supported include GNU/Linux, Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX.
 

I need to thank the following persons for their helpful criticisms, suggestions, bug reports, and in some cases code: Bardur Arantsson, Michel Blanc, Jim Botts, Leon Breedt, Chris Halverson, Magdalena Hewryk, Rich Hoffer, Kelsang Wangden, James Low, David Masterson, Miguel Armas del Rio, Roland Roberts, Raul Alexis Betancort Santana, Mike Scheidler, Joe Siegrist, and especially Harlan Stenn, who implemented the PIKT autoconf/automake and who has helped out in other innumerable ways.  I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the authors and maintainers of gcc, gdb, and make, as well as GNU flex (lex) and bison (yacc), upon which PIKT relies quite heavily.  I am also very grateful to Will Partain and Kelsang Wangden for providing thoughtful and incisive suggestions for improving this paper.
 

In a former life, Robert Osterlund earned a couple of economics degrees from the University of Chicago and worked as an economist and college teacher while serving as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines.  After making a mid-life career switch to computing, he took computing courses for a while at the University of Illinois at Chicago, then returned to the Philippines to organize and head the computer department at a small college there.  He was employed for five years as Senior Programmer Analyst at the University of Chicago's Social Sciences and Public Policy Computing Center, and has worked as Unix Systems Manager at the University's Graduate School of Business since 1995.  You can mail him at: Robert Osterlund, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1101 E. 58th Street, Walker 309, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.  Or send e-mail to: .

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