This is a version of Mike Whitbeck's REACT 3.21 program compiled for DOS. It calculates concentration vs. time profiles for specified chemical mechanisms, and will fit model rate coefficients to data if available. The program uses standard screen and file I/O. No changes were made in the program; this is a simple recompile with Microsoft C 5.1. (Thank you Standard C!) The program does require a math coprocessor (it's silly to run it on a machine without one.) This program is similar to the Macintosh and OS/2 versions which are also available at www.ccl.net in /pub/chemistry/software/mac and /pub/chemistry/software/os-2 respectively. React is relatively light on memory requirements, so I don't expect users to run into memory limits with the DOS version, but I have not tested to find the limits. The program manual is contained in manual.txt; the DOS executable is react3.exe. For questions specifically about the program's operation on DOS, email to George McBane, mcbane.2@osu.edu or write to George C. McBane mcbane.2@osu.edu Department of Chemistry FAX (614) 292-1685 The Ohio State University 120 W. 18th Ave Columbus, OH 43210 For correspondence about the program itself, write Dr. Mike Whitbeck (whitbeck1@llnl.gov). The program requires one command-line parameter (the name of the master file), and has three optional parameters: the maximum number of iterations the integrator takes on any one step, the maximum order used by the integrator, and the scalar relative tolerance. For information about the use of these parameters, see the documentation for Hindmarsh and Cohen's CVODE integrator package, available for ftp at netlib.att.com in the directory ODE. 24 October 1995 George McBane