Bruce McCarl's GAMS Newsletter Number 2

New GAMSIDE notes released
My GAMSIDE notes have been slightly updated to eliminate glitches and typos. See http://www.gams.com/mccarl/useide.pdf.
Library Manager
Do you plan to use the IDE in class and need a way to provide students with files? Alternatively would it be convenient to have a custom library in your work environment? Use the GAMSIDE library manager. For details see
  1. How it works: http://www.gams.com/mccarl/uselib.pdf.
  2. How to create libraries: http://www.gams.com/mccarl/createlib.pdf.
  3. A program that creates a library: http://www.gams.com/mccarl/makeindx.zip.
  4. A full example library from McCarl and Spreen book: http://www.gams.com/mccarl/textprob.zip. (for the book itself see http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/mccarl-bruce)
Courses offered
I teach advanced GAMS in Texas in January 2001. There will be a course on "Dynamic Economic Modeling with GAMS" by Tom Rutherford this August. Further information and other courses are listed on http://www.gams.com/courses.htm.
Speeding up GAMS
Does your program execute slowly? By reformatting your instructions you can often greatly speed things up. Also by using PROFILE and PROFILETOL you can find where the program is slow. For details see http://www.gams.com/mccarl/speed.pdf.
Change Solvers from Command line
You can respecify default LP/NLP/MIP etc. solver by adding to the command line (or the command line box in the IDE) 
   gams trnsport lp=cplex
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June 30, 2000