Product:    MINUITFNAL
Version:    8.73 MINT303
Document:   PM0020
Date:       19-NOV-1985
Czar:       KREYMER

	                VAX MINUIT

This version of MINUIT is a conversion to F77-FORTRAN, eliminating
use of HOLLERITH strings in favor of CHARACTER variables.
Up to 150 parameters, with 55 varied, are allowed.

The control deck is read in the standard Fortran list-directed format.

Changes from the old MINUIT control deck -
  1) Column restrictions are removed
  2) Variable names must be delimited by apostraphes in the
          variable definition cards.
  3) Variable definition cards must terminate with a slash (/),
          if all parameters are not explicitly specified.

(A future release of this program might well be able to remove
some of these requirements.)

Routines are also now available for running MINUIT without a
data deck.  The parameters are described through calls to a
new MINT subroutine, and execution is controlled by calls
to routine MINGO.  These two sets of calls replace the usual
call to MINUIT.

The plotting subroutines are not yet tested, so use them at
your own risk.

          Files in LIB:[LIB.MINUITFNAL]

MINCOM.FOR      Standard commons used by MIN.FOR
MINUIT.TLB         Source of MINUIT (library)
MINUIT.FOR         Source of MINUIT (plain text)
MINUIT.OLB         Library file derived from MINUIT.FOR
                        
TESTDECK.COM        Compiles TESTDECK.FOR, links with MINUIT.OLB, runs
TESTDECK.DAT        Control cards for TESTDECK.FOR test
TESTDECK.FOR        Test program using MINUIT data card input

TESTSUB.COM         Compiles and executes TESTSUB
TESTSUB.FOR         Test program using called MINUIT, calls MINT and MINGO

SUBROUTINE MINT(K,NAMK,UK,WK,A,B)
   Prepares an internal parameter card file for use by MINUIT.
   Call MINT once for each parameter. You need only specify as many
   arguments in the call as are required by the specified parameter.
 
   K    - Parameter number ( 0 for end of parameters )
   NAMK - 10  Symbol for the parameter (character type)
   UK   - Initial value
   WK   - Initial step size
   A    - (if required)

   B    - (if required)