This message announces the release of FreeSnell-1c4.

FreeSnell is a program which computes optical properties of multilayer
thin-film coatings.  Dielectric, metallic, and granular metallic films
are supported.  The FreeSnell package includes a SCM script (program)
"nk" to create, manage, and query a refractive-index spectral
database.

FreeSnell is an application of the SCM Scheme implementation and the
WB B-tree database package.

FreeSnell is free software.  It is released under the GNU General
Public License (GPL).

The FreeSnell home page details installation and links to
distributions, documentation, and examples:

	    <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/FreeSnell>

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FreeSnell-1c4 news:

FreeSnell-1c4 tracks changes in Windows.  Details at
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/freesnell/freesnell/ChangeLog>

	* optiplot.scm (convert-output): Use "magick" instead of "convert"
	program in Windows.
	(convert-output): Added options "-trim +repage", which are now
	required (in ImageMagick version 6.9) to convert EPS smaller than
	a full page.

	* index.html (x86 MS-Windows Installation): Corrected.
	* Makefile (w32install): Corrected.

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The FreeSnell package is available from
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4.zip>
 <http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freesnell/FreeSnell-1c4.zip>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/FreeSnell-1c4-1.exe>

SLIB is the portable scheme library which FreeSnell requires:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1.zip>
Also available as RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.src.rpm>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.noarch.rpm>
Also available as MS-Windows installer:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/slib-3c1-1.exe>

SCM is the Scheme implementation under which FreeSnell runs.
SCM source is available from:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4.zip>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.src.rpm>
Also available as a binary RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.x86_64.rpm>
Also available as i386 MS-Windows installer (which includes WB):
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/scm-5f4-1.exe>

WB databases are used via SCM.
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4.zip>
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.src.rpm>
Also available as a binary RPM:
 <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scm/wb-2b4-1.x86_64.rpm>