The McCarl GAMS Users Guide 2003 is ready. I wrote it with GAMS Corporation support and cooperation. It covers all user oriented GAMS features for releases up until 20.7 (the current release) excepting those in the MPSGE processor. The document is described in http://www.gams.com/dd/docs/bigdocs/gams2002/mccarlgamsuserguide.pdf. Note that the User Guide is not totally consistent with 20.7 (GDXXRW and the GAMSIDE in particular) and installation of the patches below is required for consistency. Also until the next GAMS release the User Guide needs to be downloaded following [not available anymore].
Take a look, the document covers many features that have either not been documented or collected under one roof. Prior downloaders should get the latest version as we fixed a capitalization issue that caused trouble on UNIX/LINUX machines and added mccguide.htm.
GAMS has revised and added to the solver documents. If you want these before the next release go to http://www.gams.com/docs/document.htm or download the patch below.
The documentation covers some features of the next GAMS release. To make the documentation consistent with your software on a PC system you need to install a patch that includes a new GAMSIDE, GDXXRW, new Solver Documents and repairs for GAMSBAS and GAMSCHK. Download the patch from http://www.gams.com/update/dist20.7/mccupdate.zip into the GAMS system directory nominally c:\program files\gams20.7. In turn to install
GAMS will soon release a major new update with the documentation fully integrated, several new language elements, 3 or so new solvers and faster internal code plus some bug repairs. Currently it is in testing. A newsletter will follow its release describing the new features.
This newsletter is not a product of GAMS Corporation although it is distributed with their cooperation.
February 24, 2003