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Running DDSCAT.5a Using the Sample ddscat.par File

To execute the program on a UNIX system (running either sh or csh), simply type

ddscat >& ddscat.out &

which will redirect the ``standard output'' to the file ddscat.out, and run the calculation in the background. The sample calculation (8x6x4=192 dipole target, 3 orientations, two incident polarizations, with scattering calculated for 14 distinct scattering directions), requires 1.0 cpu seconds on a Sun Ultra-170 workstation.



Bruce Draine
Thu Aug 10 09:34:16 EDT 2000