AMPL is a language and system for formulating, solving, and helping
understand mathematical programming problems (of minimizing or
maximizing a function subject to constraints).  The AMPL book,
details of which appear in "ampl.info from ampl", explains AMPL in
much more detail and provides many examples.

See also "index from ampl", "readme from ampl/solvers", and
the AMPL Web site at URL

	http://www.ampl.com/ampl/

The material in this directory and its subdirectories, like other netlib
material, is available by E-mail, ftp, and World Wide Web browser.
For more details, send the 2-word E-mail message "send readme" to
netlib@netlib.bell-labs.com .  If you use the netlib ftp server
netlib.bell-labs.com, appending ".tar" to a directory name will get you
a tar file of the directory and its subdirectories.  For example, in
directory

	ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/ampl

if you say

	binary
	get solvers.tar

you will get a tar file of the solvers directory and all of its
subdirectories.  (The files in these directories are .gz files;
the gzip binaries in directory /netlib/gnu/gzip can uncompress .gz
and .Z files.)